This afternoon, Maggie has been a first grader for a full week. So far, so good. On her first day, Maggie came home telling me that she loves her teacher just a teensy bit less than she loves me. Of course, that balance may have swung in the teacher’s favor today when I forgot to [...]
My dad had hernia surgery this week. Beforehand, my brothers and I had text message conversations:
Me, to Joey & Timmy: Call dad today. Surgery is tomorrow. Joey– can you stop by tomorrow night?
Timmy: Thanks Shook… We should each say a prayer for his balls, the giver of life xoxo
Joey: I just saw pa and held [...]
We’ve been watching some of the Olympics with iffy levels of interest from the girls. Last night, we watched some of the women’s gymnastics, and they found that pretty impressive. There were still complaints about having to watch a grown up show, but these complaints (mostly from Katie) were interspersed with requests to go back [...]
