javajennifer | June 19, 2009
A friend of mine from high school lives with her husband, a classmate of mine as well, in a city where she describes the schools as “disappointing at best”. She continues, “there’s nothing like Pembroke Hill (our private school in Kansas City) within reasonable commuting distance, especially for an elementary school kid. I love home schooling [...]
javajennifer | June 8, 2009
Because they are children I am for want of naming them on-line and decided that with their 3 enormous smiles… cheesy smiles… that I would start calling them the three enchiladas. Back when LizBeth was no more than 4, I took her to see a children’s play with another little girl, LynnCate. LynnCate knew the meaning [...]
javajennifer | June 8, 2009
Sleep. When you have kids sleep is everything. As in you don’t get any and you’re basically OK with that as long as they do. After I put the The Fugitive (my new nickname for the fingernail painting middle child) back in bed for the umteenth time, I hugged a pillow, listened to the dogs [...]
javajennifer | June 7, 2009
The dogs, two honey colored Labrador Retrievers eye me with practiced skepticism. They know I don’t know what I’m doing and that their role in the family which has steadily decreased in importance since the birth of one then another and still a third child is, for the next 48 hours, pivotal. They swagger about [...]
