On any given day I can expect to be referenced as mom or mother by Cheyenne. I am sure she calls me other things as well when I am not around. On a rare occasion she will call me mommy - typically that comes packaged in the phrase, "I love you mommy!" Ah yes, I [...]
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Note-worthy…
It is that time of year again. Time for Cheney Middle School's 7th Grade Orchestra's Holiday Concert. The STEM students (of which Cheyenne is one) are part of Cheney's 6th, 7th and 8th grade orchestra program and each grade performs about a half hour show twice a year. I have been impressed since I attended Cheyenne's first concert last year. [...]
Her pediatrician…
Cheyenne has had the same pediatrician since birth. It was her pediatrician who discovered when she was just days old that she had a heart murmur that needed attention. It was her pediatrician that spent time with us through the years asking Cheyenne about what she was doing in school, what books she was reading, [...]
Punked!!!
Cheyenne is busy tonight doing door answering/costume gushing/candy giving - duty. Somewhere along the line I lost my passion for the whole Halloween enterprise. The whole going door to door thing for kids just doesn't seem the same as it was when I was young (ummm, I mean young-er). Of course, I was a kid [...]
Validation.
You won't ever catch me saying I am the perfect parent - I am not. To be a perfect parent I would have to be a perfect person. I am not a perfect person. I can think of plenty of moments over my 30 years of parenting to-date that I could have done better with. Unfortunately, [...]
I am a life ruiner…
I am a life ruiner...or so I am told. I have heard this many times over the past couple of decades. Those would be the decades of my parenting children who have advanced into the "I believe I know what is best for my life" stage of development. It starts somewhere between the ages of [...]
Heavy metal?
Today I wrote my blog from the orthodontist's office. Today Cheyenne got her braces. She is the first kid in our family to get braces - not because she is the only one who has needed them, but because she is the first child that had the luxury of getting them. Such is the plight [...]
THE NEW FORTY 