The last few weeks at work have brought an influx of people looking for the books their children need to complete their respective school’s summer projects. Each request is a bit different but consistent with each parent is the desire that their children get a good start for the upcoming school year. As a parent I am also looking for…
Words and thoughts from Rachée
The Bee
Part of my instructions from the study I am involved in is to do some kind of physical activity for at least 20 minutes a day. Twenty minutes in the scheme of things is nothing but for some reason I find that I am always “getting ready” to do my workout instead of actually doing it. WHich, of course, means…
The Bee has started high school and the change in our home could not be more noticeable. Our days begin with her getting herself up and ready for school, with little prompting from me. Most days she is ready to go, her uniform ready and prepared. She has everything neatly arranged and there is no more of the mad, dash scramble for…
My teen is…a teen. The Bee does her own thing, texting with friends, curled up with a notebook, scribbling the latest chapter in her epic story or doing some complicated thing on the computer that makes me wish I had paid more attention to the typing lessons offered at school. She’s mostly independent and mostly hidden in her room until we…
The Bee and I had been talking about doing The Color Run for a while but for one reason or another we never did. A few days before the race I saw that my friend Jo-Lynne who writes the blog Musings of a Housewife was running a contest for people to join her team and I entered thinking that if…