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The Great Graffiti Gaffe
We’re a few weeks into summer now, & our backyard trampoline has been getting a lot of action. It goes without saying that if you get your kids a trampoline, you’re getting one for the entire neighborhood. Somehow your entire neighborhood ends up in it. Now granted, trampolines carry the potential for bodily harm: But they can have an even more serious consequence, thanks to Pinterest. Pinterest is the reason we can’t have nice things, like self-esteem. Because just when you think you’re doing ok, along comes Pinterest to bombard you with thousands of ways that people are being far more creative & parenting far better than YOU. So thanks,…
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The Dino-Mite Gift Of Laughter
#3’s 13th birthday has come & gone, which now brings our house’s teenage total to THREE. We have some limited experience with teenagers because 3’s older sisters are now 16 and 15, but since 3 is also our oldest boy, this is a fairly new road for us. This year has already brought about changes that seemingly appeared overnight. #3 transformed from a gangly stick of a boy whose voice I’d mistake for his sister’s on the phone to a MAN. Seriously- puberty, y’all. The voice deepened, the daily showers, the newfound love for wrestling and all things warrior-like, and the hesitation in my husband’s step when #3 wanted to…
