Clean socks are a privilege, not a right
For parents, the beginning of September carries far more weight than New Years does. THIS is the start of the new year when it comes to school age kids. I never make resolutions for New Years, instead I face each September and the start of the new school year, with hopes, goals and aspirations. […]
A while back Hallmark sent us another fun box of stuff. Most of it made me do the ‘lalalalalala I can’t see you’ dance since it was Halloween stuff, but there was a lot of other cool gift ideas and so on for everyone. One fun thing that would make a nice little back to […]
(that is a literal thing here) A month to go and the kids start to recall what school is and what they are supposed to do there. Budgets constraints have kept this summer fairly mellow, but we haven’t had too much grumbling. Hopefully while I have some more fun vehicles to review for Crunchy, I […]
Tomorrow is the first day of school. However my kids could not care less since they found out that they are only there for 45 minutes. In their minds they can therefore stay up late as usual and just be tired AFTER they finish up. This is not working for me. While I have […]
This August has been filled with many day trips thanks to our Ford Experience . It is also filled with the specter of the dreaded SCHOOL DAYS looming ahead (yay!). Mountain Baby Store is filled with solutions for both. They have a great supply of water bottles, backpacks, lunch kits and more. I have […]
If you haven’t noticed…August is winding up. For the parental types of school age kids this mean the big gear up for back to school. Or depending on where you live….this may have happened already. Or for people like us…it couldn’t happen soon enough. This is the time when my kids have not only forgotten […]
