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Favorite conversation of the day
It is 7:30 in the morning and the kids are up sitting at the kitchen bar eating breakfast. They are sleepy, but slowly waking up and resigned to their fate of another day of public education. Badger, like so many seven year olds, uses his first moments of wakefulness as a time for self reflection.
“I [...]
Understanding different relationship models
Sunny and her friend are playing with an old doll house. Being the little girls that they are, their world revolves around little furry creatures, so the tenants of this doll house are not a happy Mother, Father, and four small children with smiles permanently affixed to their plastic faces. No. Those [...]
Multi-talented
Sunny kicks the soccer ball and talks on the phone, at the same time.
The one given soda also smelled like rotting
This is Sunny’s Science Fair project. She watered the one on the left with Sprite and the one on the right with water. Surprisingly the grass LOVED the water, and did not love the Sprite. I think the conclusion of the experiment is that grass has a very dissimilar taste in beverages [...]
Look at the stars, look how they shine for you
I decided yesterday that I was going to quit writing about all the ways in which we have been and are sick in this house. I’m finding it annoying. And if I’m annoyed by it, that has to mean that you all are are down right disgusted. I mean every day a [...]
Mathematics
“When did you and dad get married?”
“In October of 1995.”
“And it takes nine months to have a baby…so when was I born?”
“In May of 1998, well past nine months Sunny.”
“Ok, I was just checking.”
My Favorite Place is My Dreams
Sunny’s beautiful entry for the Reflections contest, in watercolor
Arts and Crafts
Sunny’s homemade bookmark
Favorite conversation of the day wherein my children act too old for their own good
Sunny: “Oh, that word is pronounced Lasagna. I didn’t know that.”
Leo: “You didn’t know Lasagna? Don’t you know how to sound things out girl?”
Sunny: “Oh, I know how to sound words out, and I’ll sound them out right up your ass!”
Leo: “You’ll sound them out up my donkey?”
Sunny: “Donkey?”
Leo: [...]
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