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Scott and Todd’s first day of school. I couldn’t get a smile out of either one of them LOL Todd is in 7th grade this year and Scott is in 10th grade. Usually by the time school rolls around I am ready for them to go back, but we had such a nice, easy summer [...]
The boys recently started back up at school. Here they are on the first day of school, preparing to leave. T-bop is now in 6th grade and S-bop is now in 9th grade. High school! I thought I was prepared having gone through this with I-bop, but it really feels fresh and new with each [...]
The mama calendar is a community building-consciousness raising resource by, of, about and for progressive, feminist, activist mothers and their families, friends & allies everywhere. it is a celebration and a call to action, a thing of beauty to last the year. Edited by coleen murphy, the calendar features photos of mamas, babies, children, dads, [...]
I hang the art work the kids have made at school throughout the house, especially the kitchen. It makes the kitchen so bright and festive. Here are some of the boy bops’ paintings from when they were younger.
My daughter I-bop moved today into her very first place. She wanted to be closer to the college she is transferring to. I was somewhat sad but prepared, as this was her plan all along; to stay home for school the first 2 years then move out when she transferred. Her place is very nice [...]
Football season is over for S-bop. He really enjoyed playing and is looking forward to playing in high school next year. At the awards ceremony the coaches talked about what a great team it was and what they have to look forward to next year. I think it’s just great that the boys got this [...]
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The boy bops and I visited the library in our old neighborhood in Cleveland. We used to live right around the corner from this library and spent hours here each week when they were small. We moved when they were ages 2 and 5 so T-bop didn’t remember it at all and s-bop just barely. [...]
Our kids go to really good schools. This is one of the things that makes the school system nice: at all the schools there are little park areas, separate from the playgrounds, that are beautiful and serene and have a little pond. This is at S-bop’s junior high. The kids can come out here at [...]
My sons started school yesterday! S-bop is in 8th grade, T-bop is in 5th. S-bop would hardly be still for me to take 1st day pictures, but I snapped a few real quick. and he refused to let us wait with him for the bus, but we watched from the porch! T-bop consented to let [...]
I-bop finally got her new computer. She used part of her birthday money to get it, plus money she earned from her part-time job. It’s really nice! and really useful. She starts fall semester of her sophomore year of college next week. See more progress on: Buy a laptop for my daughter
It is wonderful and important to further your education, if that is what you want to do. Otherwise you may feel incomplete or like your kids somehow stood in the way. I feel our government can and should do a lot more to help student parents. Here is what I did. I had to re-think [...]
You should encourage your kids to read! A love for reading is a gift and joy that will last your child’s whole life. I myself love to read and so do my children. I would caution you on letting children read just anything. My parents let me read anything in the house so I often [...]
He is in 4th grade, and this is the grade I start letting my kids manage their own study time and homework meaning I don’t sit with them and watch them do their homework like in the earlier grades. I just ask them every day after study time, Did you do your homework? to check. [...]
Mom I’m going to band practice, later! This said moments after she came home from work. My daughter plays bass in a punk rock band. They have a show lined up and are thinking about recording so they practice a lot, several times a week. Here she is leaving for practice. She also goes to [...]
Last month My daughter auditioned for the Tyra Banks modeling show America’s Next Top Model. She is only 5’6 and the show required a height of at least 5’7, but she wanted to audition anyway because a few past winners were under 5’7 (for example Eva Pigford, winner of cycle 3, is just 5’6 1/2). [...]
I have so many favorite books! Off the top of my head here are 10 right quick: Parable of the Talents by Octavia ButlerYellow Back Radio Broke-Down by Ishamel ReedCollectors by Paul GrinerThe Joke by Milan KunderaParadise by Toni MorrisonThe Sirens of Titan by Kurt VonnegutRapture of Canaan by Sherri ReynoldsThe Autograph Man by Zadie [...]
Ok, here are some more pics! My baby girl graduated from high school. I am so proud of her!!
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! [...]
Last night Mercury Man and I went to a student-led conference meeting at Sbop’s school. Each student led their parents into the classroom and explained what they did in class and how the grading period went. Sbop did very well, he told us about his various individual and group projects and what he liked and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Yay! This is fantastic! NEW YORK — The nation’s largest beverage distributors have agreed to halt nearly all sales of sodas to public schools _ a step that will remove the sugary, caloric drinks from vending machines and cafeterias around the country. The agreement was announced Wednesday by the William J. Clinton Foundation and will [...]
From my friend Gloria’s Blog:Mamis, you need to share your stories! Our organization got contacted by the same group who publishes the now-famous women’s health books “Our Bodies Ourselves”. The oddest thing is that I JUST wrote a piece a few days ago on the Boston Women’s Health Collective (the group who started publishing these [...]
When I think about this goal, I ask myself what is it I want to do with physics? Basically I want to get paid to study and think about physics. Maybe teach it on the high school or college level. My great love in physics is quantum theory, I could sit around and ponder that [...]
My daughter Iyende found an old commencement program from my high school graduation the other day. Looking through it brought back a lot of memories. There are so many things about high school I don’t remember, because I mentally checked out for much of it, but I did have good friends and good times there. [...]
So I just watched Good Morning America and they were talking about how Bill Cosby slammed parents who speak poor English at a Washington,D.C. event commemorating the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education. He was talking about not being able to understand some kid, and then he heard the parents talk and realized [...]
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