Life At The Circus

We recently celebrated my youngest sons birthday.  Because he shares his birthday with our anniversary, we often celebrate his birthday over Memorial Day weekend… So, in his book he is 4 now though technically there are still a few more days till that occurs officially.  I love this age… 3/4...  I love how his personality is developing as well as his sense of humor.  I love how his vocabulary is growing and he tries out new words, many big words and he misuses them.  I love how the other day when we were stuck in traffic on our way to the gym he begged for me to “PUH-LEEZE pull over RIGHT NOW” and when I asked why he answered, “So I can pull my underwear out of my butt.”  I love that at this age stopping the van in rush hour traffic for a wedgie seems like a perfectly normal request.  One thing I also love about this age are those magic moments when he soaks everything up like a sponge.  You can’t plan them, if you do you will end up totally f...

Gah!  It seems MORE than a month has gone by since I last updated the ol’ blog.  What a time it was too.  The whirlwind of the end of the school year.  Last week we had our last day at the tutorial followed by their year end assembly.  Wahoo!!!  All those snow days we kept our nose to the grind stone are paying off now baby!  I was so proud as I watched them get up front and recite all of the things they had memorized.  Latin endings, history time lines, science jingles…. “Yes,” I thought… “They got it!  The DID learn something this year.”  It was a moment of triumph for me as mom and teacher.   And one I did my best to savor.  Because after enduring all of the whining and tears and frustration and “do I have to”  it was wonderful to see the fruits of our labor.  Today we completed the very last step of the school year, our year end evaluation with the county school board.  So we lugged in our suitcases ...