If this is your first time joining me for the Keeping It Real Challenge, click here to learn what it’s all about. I should have known it wouldn’t be easy. I imagined calling the cable company, telling them we were cancelling our television subscription, and that would be that. Since the approximately 19 bazillion phone […]
Week 22: The kids are all right
First time joining me for the Keeping It Real Challenge? Click here to learn what it’s all about. Some parts of parenting leave me a little stumped. Okay, maybe lots of parts of parenting leave me stumped. This gig ain’t easy. My latest conundrum? What do to about name-calling. Look, I know kids calling other […]
Week 21: Kindergarten cop
First time joining me for the Keeping It Real Challenge? Click here to learn what it’s all about. I did it. I survived Eli’s first year of school. I survived him being gone five days a week from 7:30 in the morning until 3:00 in the afternoon. I wasn’t sure I would survive it when […]
Week 20: Driving in cars with boys
First time joining me for the Keeping It Real Challenge? Click here to learn what it’s all about. For Eli’s birthday last month, we bought him Sea Dogs tickets (for those of you who don’t live around here, the Sea Dogs are the Red Sox Double-A team). The game was this past Sunday. We left […]
Week 19: The taming of the shrew
If you’re just joining me for the Keeping It Real Challenge, please click here to learn what it’s all about. Friday afternoon: I pick Eli up from school and head with the kids to Sam’s Club. I’d love to wait until tomorrow to go, but since we have only one partial roll of toilet paper […]
Week 18: The sweetest thing
If this is your first time joining me for the Keeping It Real Challenge, please click here to learn how it all began. I read a blog post a while back by a mom whose kids are a little bit older than mine. She was at the pool with them one summer day when she […]
Week 17: Heaven is for real
If this is your first time reading one of my Keeping It Real Challenge posts, please click here to find out what they’re all about. I first learned of the Sauer family in March, about a month after they discovered that their four year old son, Ben, had a cancerous brain tumor. He’d had surgery, […]
Week 16: Looking back
If this is your first time joining me, please click here to find out what this is all about. Sixteen weeks! That means I’m a third of the way through the Keeping It Real Challenge. Gotta be honest, this is the longest I’ve stuck with a project in a long time. I always have good […]
Week fifteen: Late times at Cormier high
I used to be on time for everything. No, that’s not true. I was early for everything. Sometimes I would drive around the block a time or two or sit in my car outside the place I was going so that I wouldn’t be too early. Being late stressed me out, big time. Well, one […]
Week fourteen: Circle of friends
If you’re just joining me, please click here to find out what this is all about. When I met Eric, he had a great group of friends. They welcomed me in with open arms and soon I was a part of their frequent get togethers. We would meet up at church, go out for dinner, […]