Just another Tuesday night….. “Okay Superman. I’m going to say a word, and then you come up with a word that rhymes with it.” “Okay Mommy!” “Dog” “Fog” “Cat” “Bat” “Here” “Ear” “Book” “Look” “Face” “Race” “Door” “Whore” *silence* “um, floor” “WHORE! I said it mommy! WHORE rhymes with Door and Floor. WHORE!” Shouldn’t I…
Love Shouldn’t Be Old Fashioned
My cousin came down from Vegas this weekend, wanting to spend as much time with our grandmother as is humanly possible. Because things don’t get better when you are 84 and post-stroke. Friday night grandma woke the house up at 3:00 a.m, standing at the bottom of the stairs, wearing all of her necklaces, a…
Your Trash is My Treasure
When my parents first immigrated to America with two kids, they left behind almost all of their belongings. Upon arriving in Houston, Texas, where our family was being hosted by sponsors, my mom began the daunting task of acquiring “stuff.” Stuff we wanted, stuff we needed, stuff we could afford. And that was the hard…
Bittersweet Truths
He was born with big blue eyes, a head full of dark hair. He was screaming and wet when they first placed him on my chest and I knew innately, in those first few seconds, that my life would never be the same. And I fell madly in love and cried and stared into a…
What Not To Say…….Part 1*
When you are leaving a restroom after a side by side stall conversation with a coworker:“Hope everything comes out okay” or “Good Luck” or “I Win!”When you are handing your kindergarten students back over to their parents:“Hail Mary, Full of Grace, Lord Have Mercy.” or “ Thank God! It’s about time!” When your wife is…
What Teaching Kindergarten Has Taught Me
Little people have big opinions Unsupervised glitter is………it’s too ugly to describe. Just believe me when I say that it will make you weep with sorrow and leave you in craft table clean-up hell. Children hear what their parents talk about. Then they repeat it. At school. To anyone who will listen. I’m just saying………
Ooooooh! It Felt So Good!
My little sister and I had a date today.We try to do that every once in a while, just to catch up. I bore her with repeated details of my glamorous life as a mother of two, a wife, and a kindergarten teacher. She recounts dull facts about her new job as an assistant manager…