The Personal Blog of a Gen X Mom.
Today is the first day of summer vacation for E.B. and I. He’s been out of school for almost two weeks already, but Friday was my last day of work. Here we sit, side by side, still in our pajamas (with me sans makeup and hair pulled back) at View Post
I rarely take off work unless I’m really sick or E.B. is sick, but I always set aside two personal days in May to attend a couple of events at E.B.’s school. With this school year seeming much longer than usual, it felt great to leave work Thursday View Post
What’s fun on a Tuesday night? Going to Sonic for a hot fudge sundae. Even better? When your kid accidently dumps said hot fudge sundae in his lap, freaks out, and somehow gets it all over the backseat. Lucky for this kid, his daddy has a View Post
Hopefully by now everyone is thawed out from last week’s Polar Vortex. You would think living in the South, the cold air that we got wouldn’t be all that bad, but even though we didn’t see any snow, the temperatures were pretty View Post
E.B. has a cough and his voice became really hoarse on Christmas Day. I started feeling yucky Friday after a trip to the store. I’ve lived in Mississippi long enough to know that my self-diagnosis of The Delta Crud was happening, so View Post
Another Christmas holiday is in the books. We had a wonderful Christmas with our family and Santa was very, very good to E.B. So good, in fact, that it’s almost impossible to tear him away from all of his gifts. Especially his View Post
A couple of weekends ago, E.B. surprised us by suddenly wanting to enter the Kids Fun Run at our local OctoberFest. He’s always been a pretty good runner, and I have begged him in the past to enter these fun runs, but he always turned me down. All View Post
I love my new job so much, and I stay so super busy that I apologize for not updating with personal posts as much as I used to. I plan to do better on that soon. I find myself making tons of ideas for posts in my head throughout the day and then View Post
I am so not creative when it comes to bulletin boards. I’m not kidding when I tell you that everyone at my new school has mastered the art of 3D bulletin boards that look like they have stepped right off of the Pinterest website. I View Post
As an educator, I see the difference my colleagues and I are making in the lives of the children we serve each day. As a parent, I deeply appreciate the care and service that teachers give to my son on a daily basis. Each day when I send him off to View Post
