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Entries Tagged as 'Life with a tween'
Role reversal: They’ve been handed down to ME
February 3rd, 2010 · 11 Comments · Life with a tween, Only as old as you feel, Parenting, Pics
Tags: bandage·growing up·kids·transitions
I see a future in showbiz for this one
October 19th, 2009 · 11 Comments · Bringin the crazy, Humor: You're laughing WITH me, right?, Life with a tween, Parenting, video
Sometimes I wonder if/when the kids will ever beg to be kept off my blog.
Then one of them makes a video like this one, and I think maybe these kids aren’t capable of embarrassment.
Am I right, or am I right?
I think this might qualify for Wendy’s Life is Funny….
Now I’m off to work on my [...]
Tags: boys·embarrassment·fart·gas
Oh no you did NOT just bring up OVARIES at the dinner table!
September 21st, 2009 · 9 Comments · Bringin the crazy, Humor: You're laughing WITH me, right?, Life with a tween, Marriage: So sappy together..., Parenting
You know how “they” always say that having dinner as a family is crucial to family unity? I don’t think this is what they had in mind:
Dinner conversation last week, in which we began talking about Hannah’s homework: making her own musical instrument.
Me: Hannah, we should name YOUR instrument like we did LC’s two years [...]
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There are no words
August 11th, 2009 · 8 Comments · Life with a tween, My musings, Parenting, wordless wednesday
Tags: childhood·LC·middle school·tween
That’s so random
August 11th, 2009 · 8 Comments · Bringin the crazy, Humor: You're laughing WITH me, right?, Life with a tween, Parenting, Twittliteracy, school
Wanna know how random this post is?
I just named it after a fictional show on Demi Lovato’s new Disney Channel show, “Sonny with a Chance.”
That’s how random.
(I know: I am way too knowledgeable about children’s programming.)
Anyway, first, I want to thank my lovely commenters for the warm (and absorbent) response to the Wearable Towel.
Look for [...]
I CAN’T BELIEVE I GOT MY EARS PIERCED!!!!
July 14th, 2009 · 7 Comments · Life with a tween, Parenting
No, not ME.
That would be what Hannah has said to me at least 57 times in the last 24 hours. Make that 157 times.
Yes, my oldest daughter, at all of 9 1/2 years of age, has finally gotten holes in her head.
And I bet you think I must have a hole in MY head for [...]
Tags: earrings·ears pierced·tweens
It’s Steak n Shake, an’ Ah hayulped!
June 2nd, 2009 · 14 Comments · Bringin the crazy, Humor: You're laughing WITH me, right?, Life with a tween, Parenting
That title has ALMOST nothing to do with this post. For some reason, an old Shake N Bake commercial came to mind just before I hit “publish.”
(A CLASSIC commercial which I cannot find anywhere)
(Can ya help – I mean hayulp – a sista out? Link in the comments!)
Today I woke up feeling either brave or [...]
Tags: family·grief·kids·misbehaving kids·prayer·restaurants·steak n shake·tweens
First week out of school, by the numbers
June 1st, 2009 · 15 Comments · Death to plants!, Dogalicious, Stinkbert and Scruffalupagus, Humor: You're laughing WITH me, right?, Life with a tween, Parenting
You guys. I had an epiphany this week. Think you can handle it? It’s just as profound as you’d expect from me.
Okay, here it is:
The transition to summer is really hard once you have kids in school.
I KNOW! Deep, am I right?
You probably oughta write that down. Or quote me on Twitter …or something.
But [...]
Tags: crochet·dog·family·minor league baseball·school·summer·tick bite
Just doin my job, Ma’am.
May 26th, 2009 · 15 Comments · Life with a tween, Parenting
Milestone Alert:
My now-officially-a-middle-schooler son got invited to his first for-no-reason-other-than-to-get-together-and-goof-off party. It was last Thursday night.
I KNOW. Yikes. I am so not ready for teendom. But we did let him go, even though:
We didn’t find out about it when he received the invitation early in the week, but rather TWO HOURS before it started, [...]
Tags: embarrassing parents·graduation·middle school·party·teen·tween
This is me, checking in
May 22nd, 2009 · 15 Comments · Life with a tween, Parenting
Last day of school? Check.
Rainy afternoon with kids communing with Cartoon Network? Check.
Three separate awards ceremonies for three kids on three separate days? Check, check and check.
Three opportunities to get a numb butt from sitting on those hard metal chairs? Check.
Three yearbooks sticky with cake and/or ice cream from class parties? Check.
(But when did they [...]
Tags: elementary school·graduation·school's out·summer vacation·tweens




