Mom on the edge.
Here’s a confession: I love reading (you knew that already), but I’m on the fence about poetry. Sometimes I…well, I don’t know what it’s talking about. I do love rhyming kid poetry, but I feel like I’m supposed to love esoteric non-rhyming poems about fields of wheat also. I haven’t told my kids about this. [...]
I found this list while I was cleaning today. My thoughts (other than: Henry needs to work on his handwriting) are that there is a quiet poeticism going on in my 9-year-old that I only find out about when I find discarded papers under the couch. Secret poetic tidbits. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fworldofjulie.com%2F%3Fp%3D3736′; addthis_title = ‘So+loud+you+can%26%238217%3Bt+hear+it’; [...]
List makers breed more list makers. Here is Henry’s list for today. Note: I am now redoing everything, so this can be my daily list too. Can I even tell you how much I love this? addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fworldofjulie.com%2F%3Fp%3D3662′; addthis_title = ‘Make+City%21+Destroy+City%21′; addthis_pub = ”;
The work around here continues to be colored by my knee. Apparently you don’t just have ACL surgery and then hop up the next day to do the hustle. It takes six months before that can happen (and then another six months of intensive dance lessons from Leif Garrett). And so, two weeks (and change) [...]
I feel like I need a new category for reviews: Books that Are Keeping Henry Unbelievably Occupied, But I Don’t Really Know What They Are. In that category I’d put The Adventures of Penrose the Mathematical Cat and Do Not Open and Fantasy: An Artist’s Realm. And now this book: The Scary Places Map Book: [...]
So, what do you get when you add two Star-Wars-obsessed kids, Legos, and a video camera? This. (Also: I feel the need to mention that they haven’t actually seen any of the Star Wars movies. So this is their version of Star Wars via, you know, book learnin’.) addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fworldofjulie.com%2F%3Fp%3D3525′; addthis_title = ‘Henry+and+Eli+make+a+video’; addthis_pub [...]
So it was just about a year ago that I said, “Henry, I really want you to decide on an instrument you like so you can start taking lessons” and he said, “Oh, I already know what I want to play! The harp!” At which point I tried really hard not to burst out laughing, [...]
Here’s a passive aggressive little comic that Henry dashed out one day. In the first panel, Henry and Eli are in their room (bunk beds on one side, Zuzu’s mattress-on-the-floor on the other), saying “See, it’s clean!” Then my hand is reaching for the doorknob, saying, “Let me check” while a kid voice says, “No, [...]
I’m really looking forward to seeing the story Henry’s thinking of that goes with these chapter titles. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fworldofjulie.com%2F%3Fp%3D3320′; addthis_title = ‘War.+Death.+The+Alps.’; addthis_pub = ”;
Yeah so it’s totally normal for your 8-year-old to decide to start his own religion, right? (And it’s also normal for him to randomly choose ideas that sound good to him from all the world’s religions?) I cannot tell you how much I love finding lists like this strewn about the house. Can you read [...]
