Weekend Whatnot
As Indiana Jones said, "Snakes. Why'd it have to be snakes?" My son wants to get one for a pet. We're actually thinking about it. Corn snakes are supposed to be quite easy to handle.
At a local farm, the kids and I were picking green beans. My daughter kept picking the huge overripe beans, even though I told her we didn't want those. Her justification: "I'm going to decorate my room with these." I may have figured out why her room smells funny.
I bought a new kind of jam at the store. My daughter didn't want me to use it on her toast. I asked, "Why? Don't you like boysenberry?" She said, "Ohhh, I thought it was poison-berry."
Homeschool moms are just as cliquish and exclusive as other moms when you're the only dad at a homeschooler picnic. On a positive note, I think I may have mastered the power of invisibility!
A neighbor actually told me, "In the summer it's too hot, and in the winter it's too cold, so we just stay inside most of the time." He wasn't joking. Maybe he should just find a cave deep underground to raise his family in.
One reviewer described it as "a silly man in a brown suit makes bug-eyed faces." That's all we need to know... My kids love Mr. Bean, and we'll be front and center at his new movie this weekend.
At a local farm, the kids and I were picking green beans. My daughter kept picking the huge overripe beans, even though I told her we didn't want those. Her justification: "I'm going to decorate my room with these." I may have figured out why her room smells funny.
I bought a new kind of jam at the store. My daughter didn't want me to use it on her toast. I asked, "Why? Don't you like boysenberry?" She said, "Ohhh, I thought it was poison-berry."
Homeschool moms are just as cliquish and exclusive as other moms when you're the only dad at a homeschooler picnic. On a positive note, I think I may have mastered the power of invisibility!
A neighbor actually told me, "In the summer it's too hot, and in the winter it's too cold, so we just stay inside most of the time." He wasn't joking. Maybe he should just find a cave deep underground to raise his family in.
One reviewer described it as "a silly man in a brown suit makes bug-eyed faces." That's all we need to know... My kids love Mr. Bean, and we'll be front and center at his new movie this weekend.
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My son wants to see Mr. Bean too. I didn't know he even knew who Mr. Bean was.
Let me know how it is.
Even more proof that home-school families are not different from other families.
I got ignored by a group of moms this week, too. Big fun, this invisibility, stuff.
We got that movie here 4 months ago..to me it's not as funny as the TV series or the first movie..but my kids love it no matter what. THey can still remember the scenes and act them out till now!
I have a lot of neighbors around here who just spend their whole lives in the house. I don't know what's worse, letting kids run around unsupervised in the street, or being vampires.
Your daughter is smart - she's not about to eat poison-berry just because her dad does!
Too hot and too cold .. wonder why they don't move then?
Snake as a pet, he's got my husbands vote!
Funny I should just have read this...my husband just left seconds ago to take the kids to see the new Mr. Bean movie. They saw the trailer and thought it was hilarious.
Corn snakes are cool pets. My friend who teaches with me had one as a classroom pet a few years ago. It was a big hit with the kids.
We have three garter snakes for pets, they're really quite easy to care for, entertaining to watch, and (if you take the time to handle them frequently) fairly gentle.
Love your blog!
Initially I was a bit surprised about being marginalized by the mothers at the playground and at the schools. But, I learned to warm up to them as they have a lot of the needed infomation. Like what's happening at school, who are the good teachers, and, in the early years, how to handle teething. I think it's as much about the gender gap as it is about Dad's not being the natural lead in parenting. Women are different, and as my previously five-year old son found them meaningless, so do I.
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