Cade finished his first week of second grade. Riding in the car with me last night, he said, “I really like Mrs. Kuiper. She’s just so nice!”I smiled and asked, “What does she do that’s really nice?”He thought for a moment, then...
When Cade was 2 1/2, I had him in the grocery cart at Costco when I noticed something familiar about what he was saying. He talked constantly, and you rarely could understand all of what he said, but I listened carefully and this is what I heard… PS. Thanks Mrs....
On Easter Sunday, I was trotting behind my grocery cart, all panicky because the Easter flowers were completely picked over and I had nothing to put on my table to pretty it up. So, at a brunch this week, when my friend Rachel Heagle shared her bountiful supply of...
Everybody said our third child was ready to start kindergarten when he was (just-turned) five. But ready for kindergarten does not mean ready for every subsequent year. We learned that with child number two. For him, Kindergarten was a blast. But first grade? Not so...