Lessons in Motherhood

For our 74 box tops, Hailey was able to get what she has appropriately named Sticky Frog. She said she bought almost everything in the store. Sticky Frog was all she bought.
Picture is NOT to scale (see quarter for a point of reference). Now I get the Box Top scam. [...]

Have we already established that I am a little crazy? And can we all agree that I clearly get that little bit of crazy from my Mother? No?!!? We haven’t confirmed all that yet. Well, let’s just get that detail worked out now, shall we?
I think I mentioned last week that [...]

Who wants to help fund Hailey’s public school education? Oh, don’t all jump at once. Hey, it’s not like I’m asking you to pay for college (YET). All I need you to do is just cut out Box Top symbols like the one I’ve conveniently posted below…

Please check your pantries and [...]

The PTA is sponsoring an art contest. Perfect. That’s right up Hailey’s alley. Anything involving art gets lots of attention from our little wonder kid who runs around spouting off facts about DaVinci and the five great Renaissance artists.
So, I enrolled her in this contest, which has a theme of [...]

Someone has decided that she doesn’t need a nap anymore. That was Saturday when she made that decision. I nearly lost my mind that afternoon…mainly because I wanted to take a nap too. Let’s just say that one of us was a wee bit cranky, and it wasn’t Sophia.
Then, Saturday [...]

Why? Why? Why can’t I do anything simple? I mean really. It’s Fruits and Veggies Month at Hailey’s school. Each child in her class got a color and tomorrow we are supposed to bring in fruits or vegetables of that color. Hailey got orange. Carrots and oranges were taken. [...]

I suppose that you are thinking that this post is going to be about me taking on the challenges of parenting head on. It’s not. Nope. It’s about something much more disgusting and nefarious than that. In fact, you either going to find this post completely revolting, simply adorable or both.
This [...]

This is the first week of kindergarten homework, and I am just not ready. Well, I’m ready, but it’s really unfortunate timing for Hailey. She happens to really love stripes right now. Yes. You read that right. She loves stripes.
I know that you are wondering what stripes and [...]

It’s been a busy few days here at the Hamilton household. Today was curriculum night at school where Hailey’s teacher told us all about what she does every day. Wow! Her teacher has got this thing down. She has about a billion different activities that they do every day. She’s [...]

Hailey is doing swimmingly in school. She’s also doing schoolingly at swim. Hmm…that worked better in my head. Anyway, she’s been really enjoying kindergarten so far. I wish that I could record all of the stories that she tells. Trying to understand what goes on at school is like trying [...]