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Funny stories

I've been trying to write insightful, thoughtful posts about the nature of parenting and noticing your own character flaws in your children and trying to save them from themselves. It never comes out the way I want it to, so I'll post some cute kid stories instead (which, frankly, is one of the main purposes of this blog as well as the main interest of many of its family readers).

Amanda comes home with pictures from preschool fairly regularly. Yesterday marks the first time she told me what they were pictures of. The first was a moose. The second was a train. She informed me that "The train does not have a cape." Hmmm.

I watched Luke and a 4 month old baby in the nursery at church the other day. What a difference! The 4 month old sat in the baby swing and batted at the toys hanging over it. One of the toys was a handle that caused music to play and lights to flash when you pulled it. The little baby liked the lights, but wasn't quite coordinated enough to grab the handle and pull (and perhaps didn't have the necessary cause and effect ideas). Luke would crawl over to the handle repeatedly and pull the handle, to the delight of both babies.
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David Christian said…
I like your stories about what it's like to be a parent best, and the tough decisions that go along with it, as I think it helps me understand you and Steph better. I really liked the story about eleanor's acrobatics and also the one about amanda running away. Although, honestly, I love it all. Keep it up, mathmom, it's great reading.
November 30, 2007 at 10:51 AM
mathmom said…
Thanks David! It is nice having encouragement. Frankly, the toughest part about writing a blog right now is lack of sleep, too many things I *should* be doing (cleaning and other household chores) and the perception that life isn't really interesting. The greatest antidote to those feelings is to think of family who want to know what we're up to and to think of the kids' children, who might want to know what their parents were like as kids.
November 30, 2007 at 8:30 PM
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