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My favorite Valentines

February 13, 2010

The first year Ryan was in school it didn’t occur to me until the night before Valentine’s Day that he would need Valentines for his classmates.  Thankfully, I had an overflowing scrapbook supply closet (sorely neglected since I started blogging) and we pulled together 18 handmade Valentines and a decorated box for Valentine collection. The [...]

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Color Value

February 8, 2010

The boys put great value on things that are rare. Ryan(8) has always used scarcity as an argument for a possession’s treasurability. He has boxes and boxes of rare rocks, sticks, pieces of paper, paper clips, rubber bands, rubber balls, plastic coins, pennies, coupons, voided credit cards, string, pencils and countless other items that absolutely-under-no-circumstances [...]

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Laundry Sensei Needed

October 20, 2009
Dirty karate pants

The older boys have been in karate for years. Ryan is in the American Karate program and is now a purple belt. Reid is in the Little Dragons program and is a purple striped white belt. We have a special place to put uniforms so that we can find all the required pieces and when [...]

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The importance of proper penmanship

October 14, 2009
My brother by Ryan

Third grade has not been without it’s challenges.  The biggest challenge has been the switch to cursive handwriting. Cursive. The mere mention of cursive handwriting sends shivers through Ryan’s body which he expresses as kicking, screaming and complaining in a modified 8 year old tantrum. Curses on cursive. He is getting better at it.  It [...]

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