Eli: “Mom, I’m not the Tooth Fairy. I’m not Santa Claus, or the Easter Bunny. I am the Soap Spartan!!!” Me: “Ohhhkaaayyyy….” Eli: “My good deed is that I sneak around and refill the soap bottles when no one is looking!” (Have I mentioned lately how much I love that kid?) Me: (Laughing) “Well, I [...]

What happened when Eli rushed through a math review assignment because he wanted to get outside to play with his friends… I guess one could say that each number was cool, big, nice and “graet”. When asked about the misspelling of “great”, he said, “Mom…you always taught me, ‘When two vowels go walking, the first [...]

Several years ago, my family started the tradition of having a “Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” themed meal on Thanksgiving Eve while we watch the classic special together. If you’ve not seen the show, poor Charlie Brown is inundated with last-minute, self-invited dinner guests. His plans were to eat Thanksgiving dinner at his grandmother’s house, so he [...]

(My goofy boy modeling last year’s Halloween glasses.) We have a handy-dandy globe that shows all the features of the earth, but without labels. It’s very useful for reviewing geography, because they can’t just read me the names like they could on a traditional globe. We used it today to review the names of continents [...]

Eli’s cleaning up the kitchen and comes to the desk to ask me where to put something. He’s holding a big bottle of olive oil I used while cooking tonight. I tell him that it goes in the cabinet, on the shelf under the peanut butter, with the other oils. He leaves, then yells from [...]