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My mom worked at the Extreme Makeover Check-In site – and all I got was this shirt.
Up until yesterday Cheyenne had been fairly nonplussed as to all the excitement around Extreme Makeover. All she was focused on was how her mother's involvement in the project was impacting her life (typical 11 year old "It's all about me..." tunnel vision). Not that Cheyenne isn't a fan of the show or mesmerized with [...]
Mrs. Bestge walks on water.
Cheyenne has really been enjoying her new school. Every day I hear about all the great discussions and projects they get to do and about how much she likes her teachers. Mostly though I hear about Mrs. Bestge, Cheyenne's reading and writing teacher. Mrs. Bestge has emerged as Cheyenne's favorite. I can tell already that [...]
Learning curve…
I must say that parenting definitely has a learning curve. This is particularly true when you can manage to get just shy of 18 years in between child one and child four. By the time you roll on into child four you should be a seasoned pro...not perfect (is this whole parenting thing ever an [...]
The speed of flight…
Well, Cheyenne went back to school this week. This year she is in 6th grade at a new school. The first day of school (which was Tuesday in West Fargo) she was a tad nervous and decided that she had thought better of middle school and would not remind returning to the much more familiar [...]
New rules!
The Princess of Quite-A-Lot is back from her summer-long sojourn with her father and order is restored in the kingdom...with "order" being a relative term. A kingdom with a Queen in the new forty and a Princess of Quite-A-Lot of the age 11 is one helluva' a kingdom. One might argue that no moat or [...]
Are you kinder than a 5th grader?
I worked my way through a pile of papers on my desk the other day and at the bottom were Cheyenne's fifth grade work folder that I was saving to keep with her school memory book. I have to say flipping through those fifth grade memories made me a bit reminiscent and again reminded me [...]
THE NEW FORTY 