I’m on a weekend snow trip, which, for those who know me, is a strange thing to hear from me. Having grown up with snow, then choosing to leave it, I am not usually one who seeks out how to return to it.
Archive for the ‘Children’ Category
Winter Wonderland
Posted in Children, Cooking/Food & Wine, Friendship, Natural World, Photos, Reminiscences, Travel, Writing on December 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Writing Stories Together
Posted in Family, Having Fun, Motherhood, School, Writing on December 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Tonight my son’s homework assignment is to write the first draft of a mystery story. It’s to include dialogue, six of this week’s spelling words, and he’s to define character and setting. We’ve been going back and forth at the kitchen table for longer than you’d think it would take to write a page. My […]
From the Mouths of Babes
Posted in Children, Growing up, Parenting, Sons, Wisdom on October 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
My son is at the age where we have life lesson conversations in the car, en route to some activity. We’ve had some lovely discussions, and their brevity and the guarantee of having to end when we reach our destination lends a kind of safety – to both of us. These will not be marathon […]
When you give a kid a camera . . .
Posted in Children, Emotions/Inner World, Motherhood, Photos, Reminiscences on September 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I came across these pictures, taken by my son when he was 3 or 4. They represent his world view, his valuables, what made sense to him and what was available to him to take in visually. They are of terrible quality, no production value whatsoever. But I can recall the feel of being in […]
School’s Out
Posted in Growing up, Motherhood, School on June 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
At 2:10 today, I become the parent of a 4th grader. The past few days he’s come home with his backpack stuffed with journals, pencils, markers, math books, homework sheets, art projects, science observation sheets, even a brand new dictionary. And he won an MP4 player at his after-school program, which only caused me to […]