parenting

On the School Bus

Last night was TRC’s Kindergarten open house, a chance for parents to bring their new Kindergarteners to the school and let them check out their class, meet their teachers, look at the school–the whole shebang. TRC was extremely excited. The highlight of the evening for him was getting to go on a REAL SCHOOL BUS. […]

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Chatting w/TRC

DKC just forwarded me a chat session TRC had with my sister, Gretel. I’m including it below, because I got such a kick out of it. He did the typing all on his own. Not too shabby for a 5 year old. 🙂 me: Hi Gretel do you have a minute? TRC would like to

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Because People Seem to Care

I keep getting asked how World of Warcraft is treating me. Turns out people actually read my blog or check it out through Facebook–who knew? 🙂 And since the question keeps popping up, I thought I’d let you all breathe a little easier by telling you all at once. Azeroth is fine. I have yet

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TRC at Work

Brought my son in with me to work today, just for a half day (we’re taking off early to go see Up, believe it or not. Me? Seeing a movie opening day again? Very nice.) It’s fun to have him here with me. So far he’s stamped, de-barcoded and de-callnumberified some discards, made a picture

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Graduation and Separation

TRC graduated from preschool today. He was very excited (they performed a play–he was a frog. Again.), but he was also really sad. Sad because it had come to an end and “he’d never get to go to preschool again.” I tried to comfort him: reassure him that he’d still see his friends, and that

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