Fourth grade was a terrible, awful, no-good year! Okay, I’m being hyperbolic—but, it was the year that I was asked to stand in front of the class, pick up a piece of chalk and solve a mathematical problem. It was some sort of multiplication or long division or, as far as I was concerned, the most difficult mathematical problem ever created! To this day working with numbers sends a heart-stopping fear through me that I can’t explain, other than just…
Don’t ever mistake any moment with your child for anything less than a learning experience…for both of you. What do I mean? Well, tonight the Wild One said, “I draw A” during dinner and I looked up and she had used her fork to ‘draw’ on the walls (My fault, I was answering a text…during dinner). Of course, I was busy lecturing her on the appropriate use of the fork to look at the lovely lines she had scrawled on…
I’m lying inside a giant box.
No, that’s not some weird metaphor. I am literally lying inside a giant box.
Why?
Be honest. Have you ever gone a single day without complaining? Okay, I’ll own up. I’m constantly complaining. I know…we all complain. But there are days that I just feel myself being sucked into a rabbit hole—sometimes I just complain in support of friend’s complaints. Either way, it’s all negative energy that I do not need in my life. As the Wild One’s role model, I would like to set a good example. I certainly would hate for ‘complaining’ to…
When I first discovered I was pregnant the first thing that came to mind was how amazing the Peter Pan theme would look in my baby’s bedroom. Peter Pan has been my favourite story for as long as I can possibly remember (The J.M. Barrie book version, just to clarify!). So, naturally I tried my very hardest to ensure my love of this classic story extended to my daughter (her bedroom says it all…), but as she “Rawr…rawr…roars” to me…