August 17th, 2010 in Category:
Family,
Fiber Arts
This year BAD Boy is in fifth grade. It’s going to be a bittersweet year as this is his last year at the elementary school. Thanks to proration, this year there are only two fifth grade classes and there are a lot of students in each class. And when he asked me what I was [...]
May 4th, 2010 in Category:
Family,
Life
BAD Boy’s class took a field trip to the Capitol and we saw some really neat stuff, and I just wanted to share my favorite part of the field trip. This is an actual ad from the Alabama Advertiser dated January 10, 1897 plastered to the wall of a shotgun house at Old Alabama [...]
April 22nd, 2010 in Category:
Family,
Life
BAD Boy is a picky eater. Like, ridiculously picky. And he’s picky about the damnedest things. Like cake. He refuses to eat it because “it’s gross.”
I know, right? Sometimes it can get really frustrating.
Well, up until last week, donuts were also on the gross list. And then he got a wild hair and tried one. And now they’re his favorite. He loves them. And since he had only recently discovered his love of donuts, he had never eaten a hot-off-the-conveyor Krispy Kreme glazed doughnut. Continue reading Rite of Passage
March 30th, 2010 in Category:
Life
BAD Boy is quickly learning the joy of turning in games for cash or store credit. (Primarily at GameStop.) He will periodically trade in games to be able to buy new games. But he has now moved on to trading in gaming systems for newer game systems. It started with turning in his Nintendo [...]
March 16th, 2010 in Category:
Family,
Life
But until spaceships are more spacious, I will keep my feet firmly planted on terra firma. I’m not traveling the universe unless I can do it in comfort. But yesterday we went up to the Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL. We learned and saw a lot of really cool stuff. Check it [...]
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