Okay, if you come down when billytea is here, I'll make you french toast and let you nap!
SWEEET! Owen loves the zoo.
Look, you got a little stabbed the other day. That's bound to make anyone a mite ornery.
Mal ,'Ariel'
Spike's Bitches 31: We're Motivated Go-getters.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Cashmere - Aug 18, 2006 6:36:59 am PDT #9247 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Topic!Cindy - Aug 18, 2006 6:37:24 am PDT #9248 of 10001
What is even happening?
That's sounds just right, Aimee. I'd say she's doing really well. She's just feeling the change. Life is full of changes, and we don't always like them, or even if we do, we don't always like them right off the bat. Crying is one of her only ways of casting her vote, and since she's happy at the end of the day, it doesn't sound to me like she's voting, "This place sucks," so much as she's voting, "WTF. Don't I get any say, here? Respect my author-tay!!! Oh! Dollies!"
This is why I started taking O to DC part time now. I want him to socialize and be ready for me to drop him off before we start preschool and kindergarten. Plus, it gives me some more time with Liv so she gets a little undivided attention.
I really think this is a good move, all around, Cashmere. I tried to get a niece and later a cousin's daughter to come over and be a mother's helper (for pay), but it ended up being like having another kid of my own, I think because of the family connection. My kids all started pre-school when they were three years old, though, and I know they needed it. My boys needed it more than Julia, because they're just less social and far more change averse.
Steph L. - Aug 18, 2006 6:37:48 am PDT #9249 of 10001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Cash, when billytea is here (August 31), can you bring the Os down to go to the zoo with us?
Ayup. Are you going in the morning on Thursday? We can definitely make that.
WOOT!!! We can go whenever is good for you and the Os!!!
Cashmere - Aug 18, 2006 6:41:49 am PDT #9250 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
WOOT!!! We can go whenever is good for you and the Os!!!
It'll take us 2 hours to get there, so maybe we can plan for late morning (10:30-11:00). We can have lunch there and head home in the afternoon.
vw bug - Aug 18, 2006 6:44:28 am PDT #9251 of 10001
Mostly lurking...
Oh, good grief. Now Target.com is having trouble accessing the information to allow you to use any kind of gift certificate.
Stupid Target.com. I was told to "try again later."
SuziQ - Aug 18, 2006 6:50:03 am PDT #9252 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Cindy, K-Bug was a mother's helper for a neighbor a couple of summers ago. The family had adopted 5 kids and she liked having K-Bug over even if it was to just watch some of the kids while she bathed the others. I can't imagine going from zero to five kids and being able to balance all the parental stuff.
§ ita § - Aug 18, 2006 6:57:34 am PDT #9253 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
she always wonders about it, when she has a kid who has never cried at least once or twice, about being left at school, by a parent.
Unsurprisingly, that would be me. I think I shooed my parents away on my first day of Montessori.
vw bug - Aug 18, 2006 7:03:10 am PDT #9254 of 10001
Mostly lurking...
Ok. Giving up on Target.com for now.
Someone make me go do dishes.
Megan E. - Aug 18, 2006 7:16:18 am PDT #9255 of 10001
Go do dishes vw!
*cracks whip*
Topic!Cindy - Aug 18, 2006 7:21:45 am PDT #9256 of 10001
What is even happening?
ita, had you been home with a parent for all the years prior to Montessori?