Some signs of Spring Flowering phylox Budding Iris And the shadows are shrinking I also have some macro shots: The Rebel pilot and this guy, who has been sweeping my counter for mines all week. For more Weekly Winners please visit Lotus at Sarcastic Mom
We live in a poor rural county. Studies show that your poor rural areas, or maybe just poor areas in general, are less likely to have books in the home and less likely to encourage reading in children. Schools obviously want to combat this, especially at the preschool & kindergarten level. The kids bring a book home from the school library every day, this month is 2 at a time for a special reading program, and are often given books by the local Literacy Council, the PTO and Scholastic Books(the schools earn points to get books to give away or keep in their library). Mayhem has been given 5 since the beginning of the year. He’s being given another one today (Goldilocks) This is where the guilt comes in. Mayhem doesn’t need those books. In that same space of time the boys have checked out 17 books from the county library, in addition to the 4-5 a week from the school library and I have bought/traded for 8 more. The boys have 6 shelves stuffed with their books in the house, plus...
You know you have been stuck in a car with small children for too damn long when you and your spouse staring high fiving one another when you spot a McD's with a play area. It took us 9 hours to get out of Florida, a trip that should only take 6. Traffic was moving at 20mph on I75 for nearly the whole time we were on it. No reason for it. No construction, no accidents, no flat tire or cops having pulled someone over (why would they, we were 50mph under the speed limit). At one point I had to pull over so DH could hack his way into the underbrush & find a spot for Havoc to poop. I'd been hoping to reach an exit for 10 minutes by then & only gone a couple of miles. I seem to have a ton of laundry to do. I'm not sure how that happened because I did laundry the day before we left. There should only be 4 sets of clothing & 2 of Pjs from that day waiting for us when we got home. I did laundry the night before we left FL as well. So there should b...
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year :)
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas, Stacey!
ReplyDeleteWe beat your wakeup call by 10 whole blissful minutes!
5:45 is that all? My dd-15 was up at 4:30 and the boys followed shortly thereafter. Dh and I managed to stay in bed until 5:30 - LOL.
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
ReplyDeleteThat's a beautiful picture, but 5:45????? Ugh -- I'm so glad that wasn't me. I would have been the GRUMPIEST mommy ever! :)
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas.
Great picture!
ReplyDeleteWe have a "no earlier than 6:30 rule". Why can't they wake up that early on their own for a school morning?
5:45?? YUCK!! Hope ya'll had a great Christmas!
ReplyDeleteI've left the comment club, but still plan on coming by when I have time.
5:45 am??!! That should be illegal!!
ReplyDeleteLove the dinosaur hanging in the tree!!
Hope you had a great Christmas. Love the dino.
ReplyDeleteI hope you had a wonderful Christmas!
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