My Lucy is 3,000 miles away in Chevy Chase, Maryland. She's at a Young America's Foundation conference for high school students and is busy making new friends and learning about the conservative principles that have made this country great. I'm delighted she's getting this opportunity, but as her mother, well....I'm pretty ...
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Miss Lucy Goes to Washington – Part Deux
Lucy is in Washington D.C. for the week (see earlier post). This entry describes the 2nd leg of her flight from Houston to D.C. DISCLAIMER: I am completely aware that the following post may only be of interest to me (as her mom) but I am really enjoying the description of her adventures and wanted to share. NOTE: For better understanding of what ...
Miss Lucy Goes to Washington – Part 1
My Lucy (Lucy Goose to you) is in Washington D.C. this week for a conference sponsored by Young America's Foundation. We're excited she was able to participate and I believe it will be a wonderful experience for her. What I was NOT prepared for was my own reaction as the realization hit me that she was going to be traveling ALONE. ...
How To Throw a Virtual Birthday Party
My daughter, Amy Kikita, spends a lot of time online. Today is her birthday (27) and I wanted to do something special to celebrate. "No time," she said. "I have a ton of work to catch up on." Fair enough. I guess it's good that she has a work ethic at all.... But I also know that in between uploading and downloading and ...
Demanding Equal Time
I have four offspring. And although they don't come right out and say it, there's still a fair amount of sibling-rivalry-mom-always-liked-you-best moments. So, my son, Jonathan was complaining. Not too loudly, but still... The last few months have been all about Lucy and Russian Jews and Fiddling on the Roof. "Mom," he protested, "you wrote about ...
My life has been as crazy as a fiddler on a roof
I know I haven't been blogging much lately. It takes a certain amount of creativity to write. (A lot, actually!) And sadly, all my creative energy has gone into another area of my life.... Let me explain.... Specifically, I have been acting as "hero support" for my daughter, Lucy's high school production of Fiddler on the ...
Que Rica Vida Goodies Winner
Thanks to all of you lovely commentors commentators folks who left a comment for the Que Rica Vida goodies. I truly like knowing what General Mills products you use. (I'm genuinely curious about these kinds of things...or maybe stalkery? But that's not important right now. =D) As usual, I entered the names into a list on Random.org and ...
Homeschool lesson #247 – How to Promenade in style
Lucy was in 4th grade and Jonathan was in 1st when I started homeschooling them. Believe it or not, even back then, when people found out we were homeschooling them and that we intended to do so for as long as necessary, some would very sincerely ask: "What about prom?" Yes. They did. I don't think it ever crossed any of the ...
You can’t stop the beat…
So, if you're a regular reader, you know that my kids are all theater geeks. And I know I'm the mom and everything, but they really are pretty good. (No. Really. They are.) Can I just tell you how much I love to sit in the audience and applaud them? Because I get to see all of their hard work to get to that moment when they're on ...
Drama is My Life.
"You haven't been blogging very much lately." The criticism is accurate. I figured out that even though I do a lot, I can't do everything. (But I'm still doing a lot!) So, besides cooking and laundry and educating my kids and doing life, what else is going on? Well, Jonathan and Lucy are both in Drama Productions, so I ...
