Monthly Archive: June 2014

As I posted last week, summer is not always the easiest time of year for me.  While I love that our summers are mostly unstructured, and that the kids get to relax and we get to do all kinds of activities and day trips and other adventures, the downside to all that free time is …

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I was so smug.  I admit it.  I was cocky, and smug about how my kids were going to be having a completely unstructured summer.   They were going to be relaxing, playing with the hose, and swimming in the pool.  Making lemonade stands and writing in their journals.  Exploring the woods and bike riding.  They were …

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I went to my hometown yesterday.  I lived for the first thirty years of my life in a small town about forty five minutes east of Worcester.  Maynard was a part of me, my parents had both grown up there, my great grandfather was a fire chief, my grandfather worked at the high school.  Everyone …

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I found this list of questions on a blog that I love (http://beingrudri.com/2014/06/20/some-questions-answers-2/), and since they were good questions, I’m suffering from a bit of writer’s block, and I’m waiting for some bread dough to rise before I can make dinner… 1. Which author’s voice is most compelling to you? I don’t have an answer …

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Today’s my last day without the kids.  I dropped Jessica and Sam off this morning, it was the last time I’ll ever drop them off at the same school again.  Even if they both end up going to Goddard, by the time Sam gets into high school, Jessie will be dancing off to college.  Julianna …

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This made me cry… (end of the year project) Where I’m From I’m from an old apartment building on the other side of town,  Just a staircase away from my very best friend. With a driveway covered in chalk doodles and sleepovers every night Until she moved away, and I moved too   I’m from …

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The kids are almost done with school.  Two more days, and then we’ll be liberated for the summer.  I can’t wait.  Don’t get me wrong, I know I’ll be tearing my hair out and frustrated by the squabbling and bickering.  My house will be even more of a mess than it is now, and I’ll …

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Alternate title – What it’s really like having a tween-aged daughter This is Jessie’s last year in elementary school. Starting in September, she’ll be attending the Goddard Scholars Academy, starting junior high (or middle school, as I like to call it because it sounds less grown up) a year earlier than she would if she …

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We split along gender lines this weekend.  Marc is taking Sam to the Chuck Wagon Derby today, and sleeping there tonight.  I told Jessica and Julianna down to my mother’s house, spent the morning and early afternoon at the Clinton Town Wide yardsale, and then hung out at my mom’s and sister’s this afternoon. Before …

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When Sam started kindergarten, he wouldn’t sit on the rug.  Our elementary school favors spotted rugs, with giant polka dots scattered over it, and each child sits on a dot.  Two years ago, just getting Sam into the classroom was more than we could handle some days, and the only way he’d sit with the …

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