Writer’s Block: Junior Editon
Posted by Danielle Bean in Just me on Wednesday, July 16, 2008
“You know the problem with being an author?” Ambrose mused from the backseat of the car yesterday afternoon.
I absolutely do, I wanted to tell him. I know many of the problems with being an author. The pay, the hours, the never having the right idea when you need it but then having exactly the right idea immediately after you hit “send” or in the middle of the night or while you are driving down... READ MORE
A Question of the Ages
Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Friday, July 18, 2008
“Mom,” nine-year-old Elliott asks at breakfast, “does God decide, or does he just know?”
Senseless
Posted by Danielle Bean in Homemaking on Tuesday, July 29, 2008
I assigned the job of scrubbing out the family cooler to one of my big boys yesterday and he got it done in what seemed like record time.
Me: Are you sure it’s all clean?
Him: Yup!
Me: Would you eat food that came out of it?
Him: Sure!
Which, of course, tells me nothing about the cleanliness of the cooler.
Compromise and Reason
Posted by Danielle Bean in Family on Monday, August 11, 2008
Last night, as I was tucking Gabrielle into her bed, she asked me to turn on her electric fan.
“Put it on HIGH!” she told me.
I sighed. This is a nightly battle. Her sister roommates don’t like the fan on high, but night after night, Gabby insists.
“How about if we put it on medium instead?” I suggested.
“Noooooo,” Gabby began a predictable protest. “Just this one time can’t I have it on high... READ MORE
New Media
Posted by Danielle Bean in Family on Tuesday, August 12, 2008
When you let your 6 year old set up an email account where he can “practice” this is the kind of thing you can expect to find in your inbox:
hey mama, there is a spider on your foot.
SB
The Painful Truth
Posted by Danielle Bean in Family on Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Gabby: I don’t like being the “bigger person.” It seems to me like the “bigger person” always loses.
Only a Catholic Kid
Posted by Danielle Bean in Family on Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Reader Amy shares:
“This morning, my two-year-old my son dipped his fingers into the tray below the ice-dispenser on the fridge (full of water) and then proceeded to make the sign of the cross.”
Blessed indeed! What a cutie!
Other friends have told me about their Catholic kids genuflecting before taking a seat at the movie theater and calling police officers “Father.”
What cute things do your... READ MORE
Tempting Today
Posted by Danielle Bean in Just me on Thursday, September 04, 2008
Oldest Daughter: I finally got them all to play outside. Shall I lock the door?
Guilty Conscience
Posted by Danielle Bean in Family on Thursday, September 25, 2008
Daughter: If, after you brushed your teeth, you happened to eat one M&M—not chewing it or anything so it could get stuck in your teeth—just sucking on it till it was gone ... would that really be so bad?
Anticipation
Posted by Danielle Bean in Family on Monday, September 29, 2008
7-year-old Stephen is a forward looking child. He greeted me this morning with a line of pressing questions.
“When I turn 16, I can drive, right?”
“Right.”
“And when I turn 18, I can vote?”
“Yes.”
“And when I turn 20 ... I can say bad words!”
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