It’s two days until Easter and I’m getting ready for work. As I start to gather our things, our backpacks and lunchboxes, laptops, and briefcases, Snags comes to me carrying a plastic Target bag. He opens the bag, holds it out just under my nose and demands, “What’s THIS? My EASTER PRESENT?!” And by God, [...]
Entries from March 2008
March 21, 2008
Maybe Next Year
The luck of the Irish was not with my son this St. Patrick’s Day. He built a leprechaun trap, but failed to catch a leprechaun with it. He’s been feeling a bit down about the whole thing, and he’s hoping that next year might be better. He’s already planning for it.
Leprechaun traps, if you are [...]
March 9, 2008
School Daze
I love playing school with my son. I’m good at it. After all, I learned how to be a good student at the hands of my niece. When Alyssa was three or four years old, she’d grab my hand the very second I walked in her front door and she’d lead me down the hall [...]
March 4, 2008
M-m-m-magic!
I’m just finishing up my breakfast when my son says: “So mom, the first people on the earth, how did they spread?”
“What do mean ‘how did they spread?’” I ask, feeling a bit defensive as I shovel the last bite of french toast, the last bite of bacon, into my mouth. Is he setting me up [...]
