It’s Vacation Bible School week. Or “Bye Bye” school as MonkeyBoy calls it. MonkeyMan couldn’t figure out what MonkeyBoy was saying at first, and thought maybe I’d reached the end of my rope and was telling MonkeyBoy I was going to send him away to boarding school.
I’m teaching crafts and directing and producing [...]
I think MonkeyBoy and I have talked on our phones this week more than we have all year combined. My poor phone needs charging at least once a day with all its use. Tonight I got to call my credit card company to alert them to fraud. Unless in my recent sleep [...]
An era ended today – the 1970s. Today we sold off MonkeyMan’s gold crushed velvet couch. It was a hangover from his dorm days and his bachelor pad. It was the couch that we used to make out on when we were dating. MonkeyMan used to describe it as a “nap-sucker” [...]
I mentioned sewing projects in my previous post, and I wanted to come back and post some pictures. First is my standard two-year old gift – an embroidered apron and some felt food.
I didn’t get a good picture of the food, but the top bun has “sesame seeds” and the tomato also has [...]
I was working in my craft room/office this evening when MonkeyBoy tried to come in to “help”. My room is usually a hazardous zone, and today was no different. I completed some sewing projects on Sunday and haven’t yet done a carpet sweep to make sure that the pins and needles were all [...]
We ventured out to see fireworks last night and they were all MonkeyBoy could talk about today. He describes them as “Fireworks! Boom!! Scary! They scare you! Mommy scared! Aiieeee!” That scream is thanks to some fireworks we saw while in Hawaii, at the end of a Polynesian show. I [...]
MonkeyBoy spelled his first word today. Lately, if I’m a little exasperated with him not listening to me I not only say “No” but I spell it out. As in, “Mama said no, n-o, no.” Well, tonight we did some family shopping for boy things (i.e. Star Trek toys and beer) and [...]