Posted by Jennifer Milner
Thursday, June 6, 2013
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Yes, today is the last day of school, and
everyone in the world is rejoicing.
Except Cora.
Every time we talk about the “summer” or the last day
of school, she growls at us. Sometimes she cries. She can’t
believe her teacher won’t be her teacher any more, and
there’s no WAY she can imagine first grade will be anywhere
near as good as kindergarten.
My poor kiddo.
Yesterday all her workbooks were sent home from school, and at
bedtime she gleefully got out her mathbook and did math problems
before lights out.
Yeah, there’s no hope for her.
Posted by Jennifer Milner
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
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Yesterday was Cora’s kindergarten
revue, followed by her end-of-year party, then Maddie’s
end-of-year party – for which I am a party mom.
What does that mean?
It means that we spent an hour being assaulted by ridiculously
sweet kindergarteners singing “What A Wonderful World”
(I DARE you not to cry at that!), followed by 80 kindergarteners
eating pizza and playing games in the Texas sun, followed by me
being partially responsible for 80 second-graders playing games and
eating ice cream in the Texas sun.
Followed by me going to teach for several hours.
I? Am tired.
Just keep swimming . . . just keep swimming . . .
Posted by Jennifer Milner
Thursday, May 30, 2013
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This week is not shaping up to be a good
one.
Yesterday we had our handyman out to fix a few things on the
outside of the house – rotten boards, leaky spots, and so on.
A few hundred bucks later, and our house looks – exactly the
same. But less leaky, I guess.
Then our refrigerator started not refrigerating so well. This has
been going on for a few weeks – the freezer conked out a
while ago – and we decided to just live with it and not buy a
new one, as the repair, we’ve been told, is not fool-proof
and costs as much as a new fridge. So we’ve been limping
along, but apparently now must get a new one.
The warranty, in case you were wondering, expired two months ago.
Did I mention that both caterpillars cleaned out our dill –
AGAIN – and left, never to be seen again?
Can we just call this week and be done with it?
Posted by Jennifer Milner
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
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You know, when you have a
three-day-weekend just a couple weeks before school gets out, going
back to school that next Tuesday feels a little bit like trying to
put on your skinny-girl jeans after you’ve spent a week on an
all-you-can-eat cruise. You can barely fit into them, and it makes
you crabby and oh-so-aware of how quickly you spread out.
We spent the past three days wasting no time spreading out; the
girls woke up around nine (NINE!) a.m. on Monday. We began moving
slower, taking our time, puttering desultorily around the house.
Now comes Tuesday morning with its alarm clocks and quick time
schedules and errands and lunches to pack and forms to sign and . .
.
Bleh.
We can sQUEEze back into our usual routine. Barely.
We are SO ready for summer break to be here.
