golden parenting moment #746

kiddo: I feel terrible
me: go feel terrible someplace else while I get dinner on the stove

pizza & Italian pastries are better up north

which may very well be why we won the war.....

not exactly living off the land

but my container gardens are starting to yield! These 2 beauties are going to make a lovely cucumber salad 

those little kids have a lot of energy

on the camp field trip yesterday some of the older children were enlisted to assist in keeping up with the younger kids, C was with 6 years olds and was wiped out last night to the extent he chose to go to bed early because "those little kids have a lot of energy"

from a big fish in a little pond

to a much larger pond.....kiddo attending the day camp at the Y was bumpy the first few days he decided he hated it early on & what did we do to him?! Since he was a toddler he had been in much smaller settings as far as daycare/camp were concerned. The first week was apparently torture, or so we were lead to believe- he was given the option to stay at home with David that Friday which got an enthusiastic yes & a happy dance I seem to recall. Imagine my surprise walking out of the bathroom that Friday morning to find C with towel in hand, ready to shower oh and his lunch was ready to roll could I pleeease drive him to the Y he did not want to miss anything fun

no chip nail polish?

I'm gonna cry bulls**t on that stuff they must mean it's no chip if you do nothing all day in particular anything that involves using your hands. I will however say I do love the fast drying stuff that is a little bit of alright!

onward to 7th grade

first year of middle school has been survived by all parties, thankfully. C passed along to 7th grade some days we wondered if it would happen...as it were he failed art, yeah art although he did raise  his points..to what a high F asked David. Frustrating to know that if he would just do all of his assignments and hand them in on time his report card would be straight A's with little effort. We are going to try a few new things next year to hopefully motivate him as we would seem to have run out of tricks in our bag of tricks.

misgudied gardener

or maybe the accidental gardener whatever I am very much faking it as I go but some wildflowers I planted around the mailbox appear to be sprouting of course it also looks like some weeds are growing back too so I have to guess what to pull or just let everything grow as it is. I also bought a bunch of different sorts of seeds and spread them up near the front door, likewise something is growing a combination of flowers & weeds. The containers in the back seem to be doing well the cherry tomato plant has 3 small tomatoes about ready to pick and the other plants just look good nothing sprouting as of yet-jalapenos, green peppers, cucumber and a tomato plant. Fingers crossed nothing is going to chomp on these this summer!

damn I hate that

when things you don't like about yourself are mirrored back from your kiddo...not a pleasant experience likewise the things about your own parents you disliked oh so very much that you see yourself doing

happy bunny day...a few days late

Easter has come & gone in a flash I worked many hours so it seems like this holiday was not particularly big on our hit parade this year. And as C grows older the bunny aspect of things is not so very important, don't get me wrong the giant creepy rodent delivered a basket but heck the kiddo had spent the night at his grandmother's & didn't even see his basket till Monday evening. Dinnre was low key with MIL thankfully taking care of the meal all I had to do was bring a cake easy enough! Honestly I would have been just happy to have ordered in pizza or Chinese food...maybe next year