May 8, 2008
We are approaching the end of the school season.
The Kid is getting excited about his 10th Birthday, which is coming up at the end of the month.
The weather is getting nicer.
The Kids are ready for summer.
I don’t blame them.
I’m ready for summer, too.
Driving them to and from and to and from school every day is getting old.
Trying to keep up with all the end of school year activities (field trips, teacher appreciation, planning for next year) is getting tiresome.
So I let them play outside in the afternoon and they’re loving it.
The Kid has a new glove for this baseball season so he’s working on breaking it in.
Then followed that beautiful season… Summer….
Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape
Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Elements Used:
Grunge Mask from The Sprague Lab
Dirty Frames from Designer Digitals
January 11, 2008
Turns out that The Kid isn’t the only one getting corrupted by video games in our house. (See, He is Happy! post) Now, The Girl has taken to driving wildly on the Xbox 360.
She’s not very good. In fact, she can often be found driving backwards through the course. But give her 10 years and there might be hope!
(No “women driver” jokes needed!)
December 31, 2007
“Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?”
~Samuel Johnson
It is Christmas Vacation and this is what I’ve been seeing of The Kid.
He isn’t fighting, he isn’t being rowdy, he isn’t complaining.
He gets his chores done, reads some books and then asks politely if he can play games.
I concede.
And for the next few hours this is all I see.
(Until it’s time to eat!)
I know, all the parenting gurus are hating on me right now.
There are probably a hundred studies showing how I’m ruining his future by letting him play games.
I think I have them all filed under the “I Don’t Give a Flying Rat’s *ss”
He’s 9 and it’s winter in Colorado - I’ll let him enjoy!
