Children

By Trula • June 7th, 2007

I’ve been busy as a bee getting caught up on orders and working behind the scene on the blog so unable to post here much, but here’s a little of what my baby bops have been up to: I-bop graduated from High School! S-bop finished a year of Safety Patrol! T-bop is a Wii Champion! [...]

This is a Public Service Announcement from PGB: prime reproduction age for women is 15-25. Human biology has not caught up with societal expectations. While I don’t feel that most teens in the United States can handle parenthood (given that this culture has a delayed childhood that extends into the early 20s) I do feel [...]

While my relationship with my children is very very very important to me, I think it is important and necessary that I am able to love and devote myself to someone other than them. Otherwise I will be a wreck when they are grown and have a life independent of me. I know women like [...]

My son Sbop, age 12, is growing like a weed so sleeps a lot. This is him napping on the couch after school one day. He said Mom I’m going to shut my eyes for a few minutes then go skateboard. He slept for half an hour, then got up and went skateboarding, came home, [...]

My sons made a bike ramp last Saturday after complaining about being bored. I said go outside and play. They whined, then went outside and had a blast! They rode over and over this ramp for hours on their bikes and skateboards. Big fun!

We left the library late last night, it was just getting dark. As I’ve mentioned before I take most of my pics with my phone camera, so the quality is not that good. I hardly ever get good night pics, for example. but the sky last night was so pretty, i had to try. Check [...]

It snowed heavily here the Saturday before Easter and neither me nor Mercury Man wanted to go to the store to get Easter goodies…we kept putting it off. I usually make their baskets but kept putting that off as well. Long story short I went to bed intending to lay down for a little bit [...]

Here are the easter baskets I made for my kids last year, out of cardboard boxes, pics of the kids, crayons, newspaper, and blue duct tape. I started making these about 5 years ago because we were broke one easter and could not afford baskets, and they were such a hit I made them every [...]

My daughter ibop, played Miss Gulch in the Wizard of Oz (and a munchkin and an emerald city resident). She did a fantastic job!! I am so proud of her. I was amazed at the physical transformation alone; my daughter is a slender girl, about 120ish pounds, and 5 foot 6 inches, but she managed [...]

We spent last Sunday, the first Sunday of Spring hanging out in the back yard, roasting veggie dogs (Mercury Man had meat-dogs!!) till it got dark: Here I am, chilling. It was a beautiful day, really crisp still but the sun was warm and bright. I still needed a jacket! i-bop ran in and out [...]

My son Todd as Albert Einstein. He is in 3rd grade and his class did a presentation of famous people who made contributions to the world. Each kid did a trifold with info on their person, and they had to pretend to be wax statues of the person. Then when you walked up to them [...]

I met with the teacher and principal and asst. principal yesterday, it went well. Mercury Man couldn’t come as he had an emergency meeting at his own school (he is a special ed. teacher, this year his class is emotionally disturbed students). The teacher apologized without trying to explain it again with the comments, and [...]

Yesterday in one of my daughter’s classes her teacher said she wanted to find a black man to have black babies with because ‘they are so cute’. She then singled my daughter out, the only black person in the class, to ask her if she agreed with her. I-bop said she tried to be non-comittal [...]

I don’t let my kids watch a lot of TV so during school breaks they love to watch it and will watch it all day if I let them!! Here is t-bop and i-bop all cuddled up on the couch the other day after watching TV for hours. I love these pics! (quality is bad [...]

My kids will be off the computer until after Christmas so I can post this LOL! One of the things I made for each of them was a piggy bank. I washed used pasta jars, punched a slot in the lid with a sharp knife (bend the knife sideways a few times so the edge [...]

Oh my word, little boys can be so stinky!Don’t get me started on middle school age!Someone please, make it stop! LOL! *disclaimer*Yes, I know there are little girls who have hygiene issues. Yes, I know there are little girls who have pungent pee. There are even little girls who exude that dense, skunk-like boy sweat [...]

T-bop just got done with his homework. He’s in third grade. He had to write about an important tradition in our family and use 8 spelling words out of 14. These are the words he chose: readyrememberrightreallyneedsincesausagegrateful(words he did not choose were question, write, knead, sentence, archaeology and geography) This is what he wrote: One [...]

My babies!!! No matter how big/old they get they will alwyas be my babies. Unfortunately I had to leave most of Iyende’s baby pictures when I fled my then abusive boyfriend, and the few I have left were faded long before I could scan them before they faded. I did scan and save ‘em, though. [...]

We talk about frequently ways to empower our little girls and teen daughters so that they can avoid or deal with domestic violence if it happens to them. But what can we do as mothers to help our sons avoid becoming future batterers? It has long been known that the #1 factor in a boy [...]

One thing that I read about and other people tried to prepare me for was that boys are much more active than girls. I have 3 older brothers I was raised with and they were very active but for some reason I just thought that was just my brothers, and/or that boys were so active [...]

Recent pic of my daughter, age 17 ibop has decided to live at home following her high school graduation in June and attend community college, then transfer to an art college to finish her B.A, then stay there and do a MFA for 2 years. I truly thought she was just musing doing 2 years [...]

Ok, I make quilts for my kids each year. I am in full swing of working on this year’s holiday quilts, so there is a lot of sewing stuff around. The boys asked me to make sleeping bag quilts this year, and I was like huh? Turned out Todd’s quilts from 3 years ago had [...]

Well sorta recent, from August. These are from my cousion’s wedding reception, and yes, we went home and changed as there was a 4 hour gap between the wedding and the reception time. Me and Brian (oh I love him so much! why can’t it always be this way?) My babies! sometimes I cannot believe [...]

Oh man! I’ve been wiped out all week with some strange ailment that makes my legs all cramped up and semi-paralyzed. It sucks because it makes it hard for me to walk. So I’e been laying in bed most of the day, reading and napping and trying to rest up. This happened to me once [...]

This is one of my favorite pics of all 3 of the kids together. My daughter i-bop was 9, my older son s-bop was 4 and t-bop was just a year old. I remember taking this pic, just moments before they were up and bouncing around and saying how they weren’t sleepy at all. They [...]

Here are some of my favorite pics of my kids as wee ones. i-bop and t-bop running, she was pretend chasing him and he ran with such glee! (Click/select all pics to see big) She was 9 and he was 18 months: s-bop and i-bop sitting at a train station. They looked so happy and [...]

All the posts I have made about my kids are listed below the pics! (this is a work in progress as 90% of this blog is about my kids LOL) My daughter i-bop) is 18 and my sons are 12 (s-bop) and 9 (t-bop). S-bop is Growing Like a WeedSaving Kids’ Schoolwork – What to [...]

I remember reading somewhere about how when women want to improve their communication with men in the workplace, the first thing to do is not ever raise your voice at work. This is because when women get upset our voices tend to get higher and higher and sounds very strident and whiney. Which apparently men [...]

I-bop had me unravel her dreadlocks last year and asked me if she could get a mohawk. I said yes. She wore it in various styles. Here is the hawk natural: straightened and spiked out with a hair dryer: Although I had told her what kind of damage heat could do to her hair, she [...]

i-bop is now 17, her birthday was last week. I have an essay coming together about this, I was asked to do a piece for this magazine, and I’m finding it hard to get started. I have a lot of conflicting emotions about this birthday. I had her when I was 17. So this particular [...]