My Favorite Volunteer Work

I’ve been waiting all year to get a chance to go in and help out in Erv’s preschool class.

Two years ago, I was in Essie’s class once a week, helping with center activities and getting to know her classmates.

Two years before that, I was in Ivy’s class once in a […]

Through the Lens Thursday: Triangle

I may have bribed him. We were going to the doctor for his four year well-child check, and our nurse had said that the “kindergarten shots” could be given at any time between ages four and six. I was already feeling so very behind, like a completely unprepared preschool […]

Project 365 (Week 47)

If last week was nice and warm, this week was brutally cold. It made it hard to want to leave the house, you know?

Nov. 17

Ivy had her first basketball game. Then when the big three went to bed, and the one who still naps got into his sister’s lip gloss.

Nov. […]

Project 365 (Week 46)

Do you ever have those weeks when your kids are just…..awful?? Like, you talk and talk and talk and nothing is being heard? Yeah. That. Nov. 10 World Run Day! It was actually a really mild night, and my mom and I went to the track to run our 5K. […]

Project 365 (Week 38)

WHEW, this has been a busy week! Did I start last week’s by saying that, too? I did a yard sale this weekend (my first ever), to raise some more money for LLS. It was pretty successful, but with my husband working out of town all week, pretty exhausting, too. […]

Choosing my battles. #iPPP

When I was little, my brothers and parents called me “the gypsy,” because I would wear big, long skirts that twirled and flowed and became a giant circle around me when I sat on the floor for kindergarten square time. My mom also indulged all of my hairstyle whims, cutting […]

Surrounded #iPPP

The big day was drawing near. It had been six long days since her big brother and sister started school, and the preschool open house had finally arrived.

The day before, while filling out paperwork for her enrollment (the preschool is in the same school building as the elementary classes, is […]

Well, THAT was easy.

What do you think of my blog? Cute, right?? Wacky Jacquis designed it for me.Anyway…Ivy had her first day of preschool this morning.For months, she’s been talking about how she doesn’t want to go, and she’ll be scared. And I’ve been worried about it for months.And you know what she […]