Archive for May, 2008

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

Jeff King-A Revolutionary

My dad is currently an ele­men­tary school prin­ci­pal and has been an edu­ca­tor for more than 20 years, and in one month is reti­ring.
Jeff King has spent the last cou­ple years as a co-principal of an Los Penas­qui­tos Ele­men­tary School. He’s rein­ven­ted him­self nume­rous times over his past twenty-something years in the business. […]

8 Comments » - Posted in Giving Thanks, Grandparent's love, Working Like a Dog by Nette @ Smiling Mom

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Growth as a parent

So last night I had one of those Terri­ble Horri­ble No Good Very Bad parent/child exchan­ges. BC and I just couldn’t seem to work things out. It was an emo­tio­nally grue­ling exchange which left us both sob­bing and exhaus­ted. It made me doubt my skills as a mom. Did I do […]

1 Comment » - Posted in BC, Motherhood, SVMB, Stress by Nette @ Smiling Mom

Monday, May 19th, 2008

The Evolution of a Meltdown

OK, first of all this whole inci­dent star­ted with a voice boo­ming from our back room, “No way!! BC You CANNOT wear that!!”
I say, “Hub, I usually let BC dress him­self.”
“Uh, Nette? He ‘s wea­ring tights.”
At that exact moment I was taking a sip of my tea.
My tea ended up all over my […]

6 Comments » - Posted in BC Said What??, Family Life, My children??, Stop acting your age!, eClaire Said What?? by Nette @ Smiling Mom

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

Happy Mother’s Day!

So today was just per­fect. Hubby woke up this mor­ning and sur­pri­sed me a fabu­lous love let­ter and tic­kets to a few great plays going on at the reper­tory thea­ter down­town. This is something that I’ve wan­ted to go to for quite some time.
Then we hea­ded off to our local Farmer’s Mar­ket to stand in […]

9 Comments » - Posted in Blogging Fun, Hubby Love by Nette @ Smiling Mom