First Grade. My son is starting First Grade today. He breezed through Kindergarten last year and summer vacation has disappeared in the wink of an eye. I don’t know where the time has gone.
We met my son’s first grade teacher last week. The school holds an open house so all the kids can come and [...]
Entries from August 2008
August 25, 2008
First Grade
August 18, 2008
A Beer by Any Other Name…
I was fixing lunch for my six year old son, Snags, the other day when he asked me, “Mom, how did you and Dad name me?”
“How did we decide to name you Snags?” I asked.
“Yeah,” he said. “Where did you get my name?”
I thought this was an interesting question. I wasn’t sure what prompted his [...]
August 7, 2008
That Ain’t No Cat
I was in the sixth grade, when a male classmate, David, asked our music teacher if she had a pussy. I don’t recall how much sex education we’d had at that point in time, but certainly we’d had enough to realize, at least on some level, that there was some kind of forbidden sexual connotation [...]
