I knew something was up the moment my kids got off the bus. They both looked like they were bursting to tell me something. My 10yo son shoved his way up the stairs in front of his 12yo sister. He had that freaky kind of smile he only gets when he’s really upset about something ( Read more... )

I do like my son's teacher! Apparently she read his letter aloud to the whole class today, just editing out J.'s name as the instigator. And then, according to my son, she explained a bit to the class about "gay not being a bad thing" - as he puts it ( Read more... )

Just when I thought I couldn't get any prouder of the boy, he came home today, sat down at the computer, wrote a letter and printed it out to give to his teacher. This is it...

Miss h ( Read more... )

Each of them put a copy of the petition in their backpack this morning. I wished them luck, and waved goodbye ( Read more... )

My 10yo son just wrote up a petition for the other kids on the bus to sign.

Hi, I am making a petition to get a guy named N., who is on bus XX, off the bus, because he had done all of the following ( Read more... )

My son's grade 5 class is doing an exercise in public speaking. My 10yo son was told that whatever topic he picks should be topical and entertaining to the other students. He joked about doing a speech on Elliot Spitzer and the Emperor's Club, but then said, "Well, I could talk about how my dog humps my cat. I bet they'd be interested in that ( Read more... )

I just found it crumpled up on the floor of the mud room. It looks like it got a "9" (out of 10?). I think I'll post it here, before recycling the paper...

RecessThere's yelling in the junior yard ( Read more... )

My twelve year old daughter wrote several poems for school.

Me, I don't know much about poetry, but I do like the fact that these all rhyme. And that they're not emo or angst-ridden!

Anyway...

( Here they are! )

I'm fairly certain my 10yo son does NOT read my blog. At least I hope he doesn't. I like to think I'm fairly cognizant of what he does online. Which seems to be spamming gaming forums and surfing YouTube for anime, as far as I can tell.

( But, just in case, I'm sticking this behind an LJ cut... )

I wanted to knit this very cool sweater, but of course a black sweater on a black dog would never work. Not to mention, Maggie's just not a goth kinda gal. So, I swapped out the black for something a wee bit brighter.

( Pretty puppy! )