There’s this store in the mall that is so dark, I feel like I should really get a spelunking hat before I go in again. I have the hardest time reading the price tags. The regular prices are stamped in grayish ink, but when you get to the clearance section (which...
In eighth grade Language Arts, Lindsay was asked to write about her Michigan Hero. I’ll let her surprise you…When someone asks me who my Michigan Hero is I think of an experience I had in fourth grade….In Math class, I was bent over, squinting at my...
Last time, I posted about feeling rather ‘Ugly Duckling-ish’, as a parent. When my kids were little, I honestly didn’t worry all that much about being different from other parents. I figured I was doing what was best for my child, and trying to...
It’s officially the second day of summer and we’ve already made an emergency run to the library. Does anyone else have a book worm at their house? Mine is a tween, which makes book finding that much more difficult. Twilight? Pretties and Uglies?...
If you have a girl who loves books the way mine does, these middle school years can be tricky. I don’t want to let her loose amidst the blood sucking, twisted romance novels that line the shelves of the library’s teen section. And I don’t have the...
Some responses to my last post (which detailed my daughter’s failed attempt at talking us into a texting plan) made me want to hear more from an actual twelve year old. What’s it like out there, walking the halls of your middle school with no text message...