Entries from August 2008

August 29, 2008

One of Life’s Mysteries

Can someone please explain this to me?
 
All summer long, my 6-year-old hopped out of bed in the wee hours of the morning ready to start to his day.
 
Now school has started. The alarm is set for 7 AM. He sleeps until it goes off (and sometimes through it), groggily climbs out of bed, and [...]

August 15, 2008

Home Alone: When can I stop paying the babysitter?!

Perhaps Home Alone isn’t really a good movie for kids to see. After watching it during a very long drive from North Carolina to Maine, the kids commented how cool it would be to sled down the stairs and out the door as Macaulay Caulkin does. Fortunately it hardly evers snow in NC, so we [...]