Posted by Jennifer Milner
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
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So we’ve been out of school for one
full week and change, and it’s like we never left summer at
all. We’re staying up late, we’re sleeping in,
we’re eating when we feel like it and making a lunch out of
smoothies (with spinach and avocado, don’t freak out) and
tortilla chips (organic, but still, you got me on that one).
Then, after one glorious week out of school, we turn the corner
into a couple weeks of back-to-back camps. Yesterday Maddie started
her Invention Camp, one week of 9-4 daily geeking out with other
friends who like to make rubber duck-launchers out of taken-apart
coffee-makers. My kid LOVES her some Invention Camp, so she was
signed up and ready to go.
Posted by Jennifer Milner
Friday, June 14, 2013
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The other day Maddie and I were listening
to music in the car, jamming out and singing along.
“Mommy?” Maddie said. “I like singing pop
music.”
“I do too, honey!” I replied, smiling. “What are
some of your favorite pop songs to sing, and why?”
“Well,” she said pensively, “There’s that
Justin Beaver, of course. He has a lot of popular songs.
Unfortunately,” she continued, “they’re not very
good.”
“Well,” she amended, “a couple of them are
well-written and would be nice to listen to if someone else sang
them.”
And this? Is why I love my daughter.
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 . . .
