Well, it's that time of year and the familiar sounds of the holiday abound - the sounds of Salvation bell-ringers...of shoppers' shopping bags rustling...of cheery holiday greetings - they are all out there gearing us up mentally for the holiday. But my personal favorite holiday sound - the one that really alerts me to the [...]
Tag: kids
Keep the receipt…just in case.
After my son Noah shoveled my driveway and did a number of other chores at my house yesterday he consulted with his siblings about the four of them going in on one big Christmas present for me. They planned to head out first thing this morning to scour the Black Friday sales for the best [...]
So proud…
We try and instill many things in our children: integrity, manners, ethics, personal responsibility, etc. That is our job as parents. We do this by not only teaching our children well, but also by role modeling the behavior we expect from them. Ideally, our talk and our walk are the same and children learn more [...]
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 [...]
The value in being freakishly tall…
After I told Cheyenne that she was getting really tall the other day (she is getting amazingly close to my height at the ripe old age of 11), she made a comment that I have not been able to stop laughing about. She said, "I want to grow up to be freakishly tall so I [...]
THE NEW FORTY 