3/23/2015 Venom spewing is a description of one of my angry letters. This is not the letter obviously. Mama bear can get angry when defending her cubs against anyone she sees to be a real threat. My ex. I won't play the game I don't like the moving goal posts I love my children and…
I can want
Sure, I can want my children to be brilliant and given accolades for their accomplishments. My reality is that I'm struggling to keep them all out of trouble. My Eldest Surly Reverie is floating just above the waves while treading water. Thank God he can swim. Thanking the third grade program that taught all the…
Morning teen 6:30-8:30am
"Stop touching me! Don't touch my hair! I'm not getting up, you took my blanket! Stop spraying me! I still have time! If you leave the room, I'll get up. I'm not getting up until you turn the light off. You can't make me take it. Come on Mommy! We have to leave. I'm going…
Is parenting teenagers some form of penance for having impure thoughts?
Is parenting teenagers some form of penance for having impure thoughts? Yes, I read the World According to Garp in Middle School and had impure thoughts. Consequently, I was sentenced to life with teenage boys, thrice. (Yeah, I know I have four kids, but I'm feeling pretty optimistic about my three year old girl's teenage…
Now we wait
I feel like if you don't teach children about life when they are young, they learn the realities when they are adults. ESR is 18 now and his previous actions have finally caught up to him. I think karma is giving him a view of the sentence he never received for beating the crap out…
Sounds
When sending a 14 year old outside to do chores one should assume that unless you are with them, they will break something. Or, make you break something. He was just supposed to split up the logs. Is it really that hard? Insert wedge hit with maul, repeat, repeat, repeat He yodels the "Zena, Warrior…
I did come back home eventually (Swearing alert) Long Post
There is nothing poetic about this post, hardly any prose, just the retelling of Friday's events. Funny how life just keeps avalanching and knocking down trees in its path until the whole mountaintop rolls off the cliff. ES Reverie, won five honorable mentions for his participation in the Scholastic Art competition, Friday. His reaction to…
Long- Update to the update: Young Mums
My child must be having some type of reaction to his generic concerta extended release. He is aggressive and irrationally obsessed about getting his way. He tried to talk the pastor into driving him to his father's house to pick up some things on his way back from the retreat. I, of course, said no. …
lessons learned in seventeen lines
keep them on a schedule feed and water them regularly pretend you don't know what Friday night means or Saturday morning keep farmer's hours they just might make it to school on time alarms are for parents children seem to be able to sleep through anything especially their own alarms texts, chirps, tweets and phone…
Trust
Trying to trust a 17 year old boy is like trusting a cat who goes missing for two days, comes back bloody and says he hasn't eaten a mouse.
Amanuensis Sobriquet-Reverie 