by Julie | Oct 3, 2008
Yesterday at kindergarten pickup the Other Kindergarten Teacher came over to me and said, “I want to tell you…we help the students during the first ten minutes of lunch, and I am really impressed by the lunches you pack for Henry! They’re...
by Julie | Oct 1, 2008
The other day at kindergarten pickup there was a mom next to me who gave the teacher a look like, “Well? How was he?” and the teacher good-naturedly shook her head and then told the mom that she had to put her son in timeout several times. Again. I have to...
by Julie | Sep 27, 2008
Henry has decided that he wants pants with pictures on them. I got him some guitar-print pants, but then he informed me he wanted pants where “things were happening in the pictures.” Does anyone have any ideas that don’t involve me learning to sew?...
by Julie | Sep 25, 2008
Today was a day when Henry whined about nothing for 20 minutes, and then at Minute 19 Eli would start whining, and back and forth so it was this completely seamless whine. It was a lot of whining about stuff that didn’t make any sense to me, like Henry seriously...
by Julie | Sep 19, 2008
I’m kind of finding the kindergarten lunch-packing routine to be anxiety-producing. (Predictably) there’s a kid (they don’t say who) with a peanut/tree nut allergy in Henry’s class, so Henry’s snack has to be free of nuts. His lunch can...