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book recommendations for 4th grade boy

June 16, 2010

I needed help finding books that my 9 year old boy would read. You helped me…THANKS. Here is the recommended book list for Fourth grade boys listed by the most often suggested. I see several that we have read and added my comments – I will be updating those as we continue through the list [...]

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Priorities

January 7, 2010

I have noticed something. It appears that my children don’t value the same things that I do. I have made a list of these things: Sleep. Quiet. Bath. Brushed hair. Brushed teeth. Coat. Each of these things I hold dear. Each of these things my boys fight. They seem to value OTHER things. I have [...]

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The wisdom of Solomon

January 3, 2010

There has been an issue in the house lately. I have three boys. I don’t have three of everything in the world which leads to the problem of… Sharing. Sharing is just not that popular. I mean it sounds like a good idea. It looks good when it is properly done, but the procedural issues [...]

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The Three Stooges

January 1, 2010

Last night Blog-Stedman and I went to a party and left the boys ready for bed all tucked into OUR bed watching TV for a special New Year’s treat. The plan was to find a TV channel that was showing appropriate non-offensive programming for the next 90 minutes and set the sleep timer. Blog-Stedman was [...]

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The Kids' Plan

November 1, 2009

Yesterday we were playing outside in the yard. As you may have gathered from my previous beaver issues, there are several places in the yard that has water. The water isn’t deep. More like a shallow stream that may or may not be moving and a 1 foot deep pond area that is fed by [...]

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He MUST not be a boy

August 24, 2009

Reid(6) has successfully completed his first week of first grade. Since he did not go to Kindergarten I was a little worried about him. The week went well. When I picked him up the first day he looked me straight in the eye and said, “Mom, it was a very good first day“. Reassuring. Sweet. [...]

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Be cool, stay in school

May 28, 2009

Here at the Nirvana we are into week 3 of summer. Yes, you read that correctly…week three. Of course, I only have one child actually in school and he only goes part-time (with part time home school) so you would think…what’s the big deal? He is only home 2 1/2 additional days a week. Well…I [...]

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The straight poop

May 27, 2009

One of many things that was not obvious to me before I became a mother was the amount of time I would spend each day in poop-related activities. And yes, I am referring to the poop of others, not my own. Of course I expected the diaper phase to be poop-laden, but even during that [...]

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Just one little wish

May 20, 2009

Blog-Stedman and I are two of the most opinionated people I know. It is probably a good thing that on most issues we agree. It is also probably a good thing that I am a see-both-sides-of-any-issue-and-then-invent-a-third-side kinda girl. Obviously opinionation is a dominant gene. My boys seem to have been issued a double dose of [...]

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Get in bed by the count of 3

May 19, 2009

When we designed the house in which we now live we had two kids. We put three bedrooms upstairs, but planned on using one of them as a playroom for our two boys. Well, it took awhile to design and build the home. About the same amount of time as it takes to get pregnant [...]

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Who is important NOW?

April 29, 2009

It appears that my three boys are extremely important. So important that they can’t be bothered to stop their important work for something non-important…like going to the restroom. They play chicken with their bladders to a point that it makes me have empathetic contractions. It starts out slowly with a subtle groin hold. Do you [...]

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