excuse me while I am "THAT" parent for a moment

very extremely proud looking over C's TCAP scores to see he was really smart/super amazing smart level okay maybe it was just advanced...except math which was merely proficient (my mother & aunt will be disappointed he may not be the math geek they were hoping for) My point being waaay proud of my baby. Evidently his teacher told him that if they still had the TAG (talented & gifted) program at his school he would have been in that. The problem now of course is keeping him interested, engaged & finishing his school work in class so he can live up to these lofty scores..not always the easiest task we have found out through the years *sigh* because quite frankly standardized testing doesn't mean squat at the end of the day

adventures in homework

"how was your day mommy, my day was terrible I have 3 pages of homework"
-well I'm sorry what was so terrible about it?
"the homework"
ba-dump-bump
thanks we'll be here all week try the veal

back to the routine of things

summer break is over and we are back to schedules and having to be at certain places at certain times and it only gets more regimented when my classes start back in three weeks..I already miss summer vacation

you have got to work on the sneaky

for once not a post about my son who is the least sneakiest person I have ever met no no this time his 16 year old cousin Z. Yesterday we were sitting around in a post cookout sort of food induced coma when Z popped out of his room cell phone in hand, recently spritzed with cologne smelling of what I suppose a French whorehouse of some kind might smell like announcing that he needed to go out to a car wash and wash his car....
MIL pointed out that she had a water hose & a vacuum cleaner & he could head out to the driveway and handle it all at home and while he was at it he could wash her car as well. Somehow it turned out that maybe the car was not so dirty after all

my poor gullible child

"well J says that Mrs B does not have a classroom in the intermediate school they ran out of room and my classroom will be in the middle school this year"
hmmmm and the school would tell J all about this but not you or your parents.....
at least he's cute

update: oh good grief wouldn't you know it.....evidently last year her classroom was indeed in the middle school.....I give up

yup he's growing up

on our back to school clothes shopping jaunt this weekend I was politely asked to not accompany C into the changing room. Weirdness but he is growing up not to mention he is shopping in the men's department these days so it would be more than a little odd to go into the changing rooms at this point. C does however need to work on the whole coming out in new clothes so I can see how well they fit etc... and I either need a geek phone or more stores need to offer wifi to keep me amused while I wait out side the changing rooms oh and some chairs or a bench might be nice while you're at it folks

tax-free weekend rolls around again

I'm looking to continue my annual rant and once again complain that my son's school does not have class lists posted yet...those will go up next Thursday and the whole tax-free thing well that ends Sunday at midnight. The school did hand out a what they call a supply list & of course it is the most basic and generic list of all lists as it is each and every year. I have gotten pretty good at guessing what the teachers are going to ask for but invariably I do miss a few items and will wind up shopping again for school supplies next weekend. I just do not understand why well first of all why they can't post the information online and secondly why they can't get it to us before tax-free weekend?!

let the countdown begin

13 days till the first day of school and C is trying to cram in as much fun, sleep & video gaming he can....

well then I just don't want to be right

if air conditioning is wrong

cinematic adventures

I love going to the movies! I have many fond memories of seeing just about everything that came out way back when (okay maybe not everything but I did go to the movies quite often) Childbirth, of course, seriously curtailed movie going experiences which really sucked but there was the DVD player and movies on cable. As C got older we were limited to strictly kid flicks but now heading into the tween years regular type non R-rated flicks have returned to our cinema excursions...however the price of movies geesh $37 last night for 4 of us, nephew Z came along and no way we could disguise his 16 year old self as a kid...that was 37 dollars without refreshments I might add I made the boys purchase their own. I will say the Despicable Me was worth every penny it was really a good movie and an enjoyable way to spend our Tuesday evening