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Monday, June 30th, 2008

Today you are four.

Dear BC,
Today you tur­ned four. My baby. Four. When did that hap­pen?
When I think back on how much you’ve grown up this year, I’m simply blown away.
We were cam­ping on your third birth­day last year with our dear friends. This was our first major cam­ping trip as a family. You loved […]

4 Comments » - Posted in BC, Birthday by Nette @ Smiling Mom
Monday, June 30th, 2008

Happy Birthday to you!

Today was BC’s fourth birth­day. Isn’t it ama­zing how days feel like years, but years fly by like days?
Tomo­rrow I’ll have a let­ter to BC pos­ted, but for today, I’ll leave you with a few pic­tu­res from BC’s birth­day party yes­ter­day.
This is BC just before he blew out his cand­les on his home­made Spi­der­man Cake. […]

7 Comments » - Posted in BC, Birthday by Nette @ Smiling Mom
Thursday, June 26th, 2008

How many parts equal a whole?

Dear Nanette:
Con­gra­tu­la­tions! Your appli­ca­tion for the Master’s degree and/or Tier 1 cre­den­tial pro­gram in the Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tio­nal Lea­dership at Cali­for­nia State Uni­ver­sity has been pro­ces­sed and I am plea­sed to inform you that you have been accep­ted in to the Edu­ca­tio­nal Lea­dership Pro­gram star­ting Fall 2008.
Deep breaths, Nette. Deep breaths.
As of August 25th, […]

9 Comments » - Posted in Master's Program by Nette @ Smiling Mom
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

The, the new Duh

In our house we out­law words as often as we chan­ged our under­wear… almost every day.
The basics have been ban­ned. You know, “What the hell” and “Damn it”. Even “Shit,” and “Oh my God!” are out.
But DAMage…not out. As pas­sio­na­tely as BC tells me that it IS a bad word, I just don’t buy […]

4 Comments » - Posted in Family Life, My children??, Stop acting your age! by Nette @ Smiling Mom
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