Yesterday we celebrated John. I just feel this extreme and hard to explain fervor to make a few lingering last-summer-before-school starts memories. I know that there will be weekends, breaks, holidays and summers but when he starts school later this month it will be the first time he’s be away from me for more than… Read More
We’re back home from our last trip of the summer before school starts and, between outings in Savannah and Atlanta, the Kindergarten Countdown is ON!!! W: have fun in the water Have fun in the water at the local spray ground we sure did! And when we were sufficiently water-logged, we headed to the playground, had a… Read More
For the second summer in a row, John spent a week enamored by Sea Camp at the Tybee Island Marine Science Center. I swear, he talked about the camp at least once a week for fifty-two weeks straight. As a mini beach explorer for the week, John explored the seashore, countless sea creatures and the… Read More
So we’re flying down the highway to Rosemary Beach, somewhere in the middle of Alabama, and the PCP announces from the backseat “something happened to my tooth.” I can’t help but groan and mutter in an unsuitably unkind voice (in my defense, I have been to the urgent care for stitches twice in the last… Read More
I travel with the littles a lot… as in once a month I load them up, along with an assorted and extensive trunk load of toys, bikes, balls and other can’t-possibly-live-without paraphernalia, to make the four hour drive down to Savannah for a week. All is good and well once we arrive (and that trunk… Read More
It’s hard to believe that John will be heading off to Kindergarten next month. NEXT MONTH. Yikes! Around these parts, we count down to all of the things littles look forward to… Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, you get my drift. So it’s only fitting that we’d count down to the day the PCP first steps… Read More
Earlier this week when we were faced with a good long, lazy summer day with nothing to do, we had a grand old time doing exactly as we pleased. Clad in diapers and jammies, we “worked” at collecting bark from the tree. We watched a bevvy of Scooby Doos while dressed like Bumblebee and Bat-Bob.… Read More