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Thursday, 29 October 2009
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The Good News!
On the way home from school this afternoon, I got to give my 4-year-old some good news. We all had been chatting about what an astronaut is and does and whether or not any of us could actually *be* an astronaut. I, of course, said, Yes, you could be an astronaut. What do you have to do to be an astronaut, she asks. You study things like math and physics and engineering--"and astronomy!" my 8-year-old adds--to learn all the things you'll need to know for your work.
"Hmm," she says. "Well, I'm going to be a mom."
"Hey, good news!" I tell her. "If God calls you to be an astronaut, and he also calls you to be a mom, you get to do both!"
Karen Warren -- Chronicle
Nicole Passonno Stott will spend four months
on the International Space Station.I decided to pass on giving her the bad news ... that as an astronaut mom she'll have to grow a thick skin to deflect the negative vibes thrown at her by naysayers. That course comes some time after the math, physics, and engineering, and, I pray, sometime after the Gospel has had a chance to soak deep into her soul.
Sunday, 25 October 2009
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Sock Maintenance Incentive Program Success!
Last week I instituted a new "incentive program" in our home, the purpose of which is to prevent my need of wandering whirling-dervish-like through the house looking for kids' socks--under furniture, next to the TV, in the dining room, jammed in secret places along with fruit snacks and candy wrappers--then later standing at the washing machine turning them all right-side-out.
I am proud to announce that the first week of the Sock Maintenance Incentive Program (4 school-aged children, 5 school days per week, 40 socks right-side-out in the laundry basket, milkshakes on Saturday) was a resounding success.
Here is how we celebrated:
You gotta go big the first week, right? Yum!
Saturday, 24 October 2009
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WWBT?
What would Barbie think of this use of her Magna-Doodle?
10.12.09 -- E-man likes to work out new concepts
in writing, that is, after testing them out on the neighbors
Friday, 23 October 2009
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Normalizing Relations
Two weeks ago, our 7-year-old son was invited to a neighborhood birthday party. He waited in line with the rest of the kids for his cake and ice cream, then the birthday boy's dad asked him what he would like to drink.
"Alcohol," E-man says, a proud participant in his school's D.A.R.E. program.
We found out later this was the first word he has *ever* spoken--before or since the birthday party--to our neighbor, after several years of conversational rebuffs on our son's part. Go get 'em, Tiger!
Tuesday, 13 October 2009
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Being Braggy
While driving home from the Post Office this afternoon, I glanced over at a jogger and watched while he ran right at a tree, ran a few steps up the tree, then did an aerial flip. That quick little not-quite-nonchalant look he gave to his immediate surroundings--and that tight Speedo workout shirt--made me want to roll down my window and shout at him,"Hey Buddy, I've got four girls 11-and-under and a boy with autism. I'm on my way home to supervise dinner, homework, baths, and bedtime while my husband works on his sermon for this Sunday. *I've* got some way cool moves, too..."
But I was afraid he'd think I was making a pass at him, and his head already looked a bit big for his hat anyway. So I kept driving.
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