He’s four. On the way home from his third day of preschool, he told me only two of the girls in his class like him and the rest don’t. “Oh, I bet they like you,” I say. “No, they don’t. They told me,” he said. I mentally apologized to him, on behalf of womankind. “I…
It’s sheer panic on their faces, when I tell them they’re going to learn over 700 Spanish sentences during the year. “I cannot do that,” they say to me with their eyes. Can’t blame them, can you? But what they don’t know is how much sleep I’ve lost thinking about how to help them succeed….
First day of school today, guys, and how could I not write about it? My new room is perfection, if I say so myself. Verb folders are prepared and waiting for unsuspecting freshmen. There’s a fake apple that looks for real sitting on my desk. Not sure what to wear, but I imagine the bed…
I try –I really do. I try to have other things to talk about, but it always comes back to the book I am reading. This is why you should pat my husband on the back when you walk by, maybe bring him chocolate chip cookies every once in a while. Because the poor man…
In a spirit of great generosity, Matt shared his M&M’s with me Tuesday night. This is part of what it means to love your wife the way Jesus loves the church, in case you were wondering. I was self-controlled and only shook out four candies into my hand, because I didn’t want to take advantage…
It’s pretty awesome when your sister-in-law is the dorm director, and you walk into your son’s very first dorm room ever, to discover his uncle has lined his desk with potato chips and has filled the fridge with soda. Although I was dubious about the big supply of Mountain Dew, it was really special to…
Twenty-eight hours into a 30-hour road trip –that’s when my son’s 2000 Dodge Neon lost its lights. We were five minutes north of Fort Worth, Texas when my husband decided we were going to have to find a mechanic. There was no way we could get through Fort Worth with no brake lights. Bums were…
I woke up in Wyoming, and I was one sad momma. Those men of mine were leaving Montana that morning, to meet up with me at my mom’s (where I had helped host her annual, two-day, killer garage sale.) This was the week. The week where we would be seeing our youngest in the rear…
Partly it’s because she lives just north of me in Canada that I feel this connection to her -and partly it’s because I appreciate the story of how she has been getting to know who God is through her experience with anorexia, caring for her sick mother, and now through parenting three little ones while…
Sometimes you wake up, and you know that big thing is happening today. You’ll take that first-day-of-school picture and walk your blondy, in her brand new Mary Janes, to kindergarten. Or you’ll open the door of your classroom and meet your new students for the first time, and will they eat you for lunch, the…
Something that has been on my mind a lot, in the last year or so, has been character. I keep joking with my friends that I’m 46 now, and by the time I’m 50 I’m planning on having that perfect character I’ve always hoped for. Four years -that should do it. It’s a joke. You…
You’ll know for sure how nerdy I am, when I tell you I’ve been praying about a grammar concern all summer. Maybe you’ve been hiking and boating and roasting marshmallows, but I just do words in all four seasons. So you know I’m a Spanish teacher, and I entered the summer determined to understand this…
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