A brief parenting interlude

S here — time to share a few good recent moments with M.
Pop quiz #1: if you are 10 years old, and one afternoon the plastic nosepad on your eyeglasses comes off, when would be an appropriate time to tell your mom?
A) Right away.
B) A couple hours later, after you’re done playing with your [...]

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Dumbledore and Opus

Hello, this is E.  I haven’t posted in while, been busy with work stuff.  Anyway, if you have time I highly recommend the comic strip, “Opus”.  I think the author, Berkeley Breathed, is a genius.  He’s extremely liberal, very funny, and always gives jabs to the Right in an off-handed way.   This past week’s edition goes along with S’ [...]

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Snow

S here again — forgot to say that we got the first snow of the season today. M and his buddies had a snowball fight on the way home from the school bus stop, and then attempted to make a snowman, and they have already soaked several pairs of mittens. Pretty impressive, considering we [...]

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Saving for a shed

S here — please pardon any incoherence in this entry; there are 3 children having a pillow fight while I type this. Their last-minute save of a tottering halogen lamp was particularly impressive.
Last weekend E and I applied for a joint bank account. It was on our list of “things to do so [...]

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My first Protestant wedding

S here — poor E is sick and is attempting to spend most of today asleep. (She stands a reasonable chance of accomplishing this, since she went back to her place. Between lawnmowing and rambunctious boys it would be a little tough to sleep around here today.)
Over the years, I’ve been to several [...]

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In loco parentis

S here — it’s Friday evening, which means I’m mulling over weekend plans. It occurred to me how infrequently E has been left in sole charge of M, and how much we’re going to make up for that over the next few days.
It’s not that I’m reluctant to leave M with E; it’s just [...]

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Decisions, Decisions

Hello all, this is E.  Our last post was titled “Long-range planning”, and one of my good friends chuckled when I told her about it.  You see when it comes to my personal life I am not known for my planning abilities, long or short range.  I tend to have a “wing-it” approach to life [...]

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Long-range planning

S here — yesterday I dragged M out for a nice long walk.  I try to do this every couple days, partly because I really like the exercise, and partly because a 2 mile walk together seems to really open M up to discussing things.  At home, he’s always got too many other distractions (and [...]

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