Our Friday morning commute always involves a final review of spelling words. It’s a very longstanding tradition. This morning GG informed me she knew them and we didn’t have to go over them. After some argument (which just doesn’t happen all that often with us) and finally a discussion of consequences, she finally spelled the [...]

We sang “Do the hokey pokey” some last night. This morning little TwinkleToes rearranged the words. Pokey in da Hokey and turn self ’round. Right. I’m sure RK and I aren’t the only ones who let our imagination go wild with that one. Meanwhile, GlitterGirl has been almost nonstop singing the Hoedown Throwdown. If you [...]

I’ve been meaning to blog about this sooner, this happened a few weeks ago, on a morning with temperatures in the 50′s, but with a forecast of 80′s for that afternoon. GlitterGirl asked if she could wear a short outfit, I said it was too cold out for that right now. She turned the weather [...]

I searched a long time, and did a lot of research, before choosing a school. And I love GG’s school. It was very hard to get her into it, but now that she is in, TT will have a place, so I only had to go through it once. One of the great things about [...]

Glittergirl has a new outfit that she hasn’t been able to wear much yet because the weather hasn’t been warm enough. It’s short sleeves and a skort and it is thin material. The weather just isn’t warm enough for it yet. She did get to wear it one Sunday to a party, but that was [...]

GlitterGirl was watching the squirrels running around up in the trees. Which would normally be okay, except she was walking as she was doing this. And there was a low concrete wall in front of her. She managed to not actually fall down, but she tore up the front of her shin on the top [...]

TwinkleToes had a little boo boo. Nothing major, just a scratch or scrape she got at school on the playground. Every day during dinner we heard “See my boo boo?” Eventually there was just the smallest bit of scab left, but we all looked at it and said, “Yes, we see your boo boo… now [...]

GlitterGirl and I carved the pumpkin this afternoon while TwinkleToes napped. GlitterGirl still deals with sensory stuff, but I insisted that if she wanted to help carve the pumpkin, she had to help gut the pumpkin. And she did. And was completely grossed out about it, but by the end she was laughing about how [...]

There is this boy in GlitterGirls’ class who is very socially backwards. Very. Socially. Backwards. I really feel sorry for him, he tries, but it’s like he has no filter that tells him what is socially acceptable and what is not. His mom is a bit of a socialite, so it’s not that he isn’t [...]

GlitterGirl asked me to come into her room the other day. She had something to show me. Her room is very close to our room, it’s not like I don’t see into it many times a day. But, I followed her to see what she had to show me. She had cleaned it. It was [...]