As I said yesterday, it was Tad’s teacher’s birthday. Ane and I bought flowers for her before we picked Tad up. I had a vase, kitchen shears, and a bottle of water, so I arranged the pink tulips in the vase in the car. “Please, Mommy, can I carry it?” Ane begged. I considered it. […]

How can a boy who eats with his hands (despite our attempts to get him to use a fork), plays merrily in dirt, and has been known to even sample sand at school… … absolutely flip out if he gets washable marker on his hands, and then insists on dropping everything to go and wash […]

The public school where Ane might go is located only a few miles from our house. But neither the Webmaster or I had ever been there before. So yesterday, we pulled into the parking lot for the first time to check out the school and have a meeting with the principal. She is a very […]

It has been a couple of long days around here. Today will be long and interesting, since we have our meeting with the school principal today. Yesterday, Ane brought home a tape recorder and HOMEWORK. It wasn’t complicated, but it was time-consuming: read a favorite story into the recorder, add sound effects if possible, create […]