Antics
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Just Keep Swimming…
The summer’s flying by, & we’ve spent most of it either at home or at the town pool. As I look back on our last five or six summers, I can probably say we’ve spent them doing the same exact thing. But THIS summer? A total game changer, baby! First, here’s the deal with our town pool: it’s cheap. By cheap, I mean $160 for a summer pass for the whole family, & for a family of 8, I’ll take an entire summer at the pool for the cost of a single family trip to the movies with popcorn. It’s also close by. I have found that my motivation to…
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Cookie Capers
This is a cookie. Well, technically it WAS a cheap, no-frills cookie, but now it’s a stealthy dental weapon…. because the creamy vanilla filling was meticulously scraped out of two of these cookies & replaced by the 8 year old, an evil genius*. *or avid YouTube-watcher, since apparently this prank has been making the rounds on there. Hey, at least it beats the Tide pod-eating challenge…* 8 then offered the cookie to the 4 year old, who being 4, didn’t think to question the motive behind a sibling randomly sharing a delicious baked good with him voluntarily. Now, there are obviously some design flaws here: Let’s overlook the glaringly obvious fact…
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Hair Ye, Hair Ye
One of the more challenging aspects of parenting for me came as a surprise: HAIR. As a former tomboy, styling hair was definitely NOT on my list of high priorities as a kid. I had no interest in styling either my own hair, or anyone else’s, for that matter. And if you look back at pictures from my early years in the rockin’ 80’s, that fact is sorely evident. Like this: The only thing I can say is, maybe my fever affected the normally orderly bowl-shape of my hair that day. You know, my PAC-MAN FEVER. (See the shirt? Shudder.) Awesome. Mint. Fresh. …Sike! The point is clear that hair-styling…
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Movie Night Mayhem
Now that fall is here, life has gotten far busier, and it had been awhile since we’d done something “as a family”. How about a Family Movie Night? Have a Family Movie Night, they said. It’ll be FUN!, they said. (“They” lied.) This activity is more daunting than it may appear: with six kids ranging from ages 14-3, picking a movie that will interest everyone is challenging enough. But throw into the mix children that: want to narrate the entire movie. don’t listen to the movie, & then ask questions about the movie they’re not listening to. chew popcorn too loudly. spill the popcorn they’re NOT chewing too loudly all…
