I can’t believe this is only the third weekday of the year. Feels like the 300th! Indeed me and the kids are having a tough time snapping back to rigid school routines. The getting up early and endless running is giving me a headache I’ve nursed since Monday. Anyone else having trouble getting back to the grind?
Related PostsWhen teens arrive at the crossroads of their lives when they have to decide what course they want to pursue in college, that’s often a tough time for parents too. I mean, we’re the ones who have to be there to answer their questions and to guide them to a decision which we hope will be the right one. Many parents actually decide for their kids on the basis of what career brings the best monetary rewards.
But I think it’s best to leave it to the kids. Whether it’s roughing it out at law school or toying with the idea of cosmetology schools, the important thing is for the child to find something that they’re interested in. No point for them to choose a career that they loathe just because their parents think that’s the best thing for them. Just my two cents.
Related PostsOur weekends used to be all about shopping and eating out. But lately with the economy in the state that it’s in, we’re cutting back just like a lot of you folks. For our family of five, it costs quite a bit to eat out especially since my three teens all have ravenous appetites at this stage. So if we don’t eat out, it means we’re eating in. Eating in means someone’s gotta do the cooking, and if you guessed that someone is me, you’re spot on! Oh no, here comes another weekend, time to play kitchen slave!
Related PostsBeing a mom, I’ve learnt to always be prepared. Or try to anyhow. I know we can’t be prepared all the time for all the spills and falls. But it’s good practice to keep some basic medication and medical equipment like thermometers around the house, just in case.
I mean they’re so easily available and you can even order them online at places like Allegro Medical, so why not? In fact, even when we travel or go away on holiday, I always pack a small box of essential medical stuff to bring along.
Sure you can always buy them wherever you’re vacationing at, unless you’re going to the Arctic or something 
but what if it’s late and the stores are closed?
My friend is gritting her teeth and booking plane tickets to New York. There’s just no way in the world she’s going to miss her daughter’s college graduation this summer. She’s been saving for those plane tickets since goodness knows when.
She won’t be traveling alone though. Her in-laws and a group of their friends are going to tag along as well, not specifically for her daugther’s graduation, but it’s more of their yearly pilgrimage to some exotic destination.
Good for you, I told her, because you get to spread the cost when you travel in a group. She’s not too excited about traveling with her in-laws, of course, but then again, if it means she can take advantage of the Charter bus NYC to take them sightseeing, I guess it’s not such a bad idea after all.
The bus charter service is great for sending the old folks off on a daytrip. The bus will take them to amusement parks and other places of interest while she spends some quality time with her daughter.
It’s going to work out great! I hope she has a good trip (she really deserves it!) and traveling in a group helps save her some money in the process.
Related PostsIt was a busy day yesterday. I baked muffins and made jelly for my daughter to bring to her friend’s potluck birthday party. Well, surprise party, should I say?
The other girls were planning it. First thing this morning, they were off to set up the party. They were so excited, sneaking around and calling back and forth . They’ve invited the birthday girl to tennis and then they’re going to spring the surprise on her. Should be lots of fun!
Next week, my neighbor’s kid starts kindy. Man, how is it that kids are starting kindy earlier and earlier? The little guy is only 4, he’s still got a ways to go before being thrown into a cookie cutter classroom, I would think.
I suppose it’s good for the kids to learn something in a playful environment with other kids rather than sit at home and glue themselves to the cartoons on TV.
They’ll learn some song and dance. My kids’ favorite song when he was in kindy was Here we go round the Mulberry Bush, though I doubt any of the kids or even their teacher knows what Mulberry trees even look like.
Whatever the benefits, I would still prefer kids to stay home with their moms for as long as they can. There’s plenty of time for school later so why the rush?
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After last week’s near miss with a school van, I almost collided with a car that was turning out of a gas station when I went to pick up my son from college Friday.
The lady driver never even so much as turned her head in my direction as I was turning the corner on the same road she was trying to get on.
Gosh, I tell you, I’ve really almost had enough of these drivers with bad attitudes. I’m careful to a T as a driver since I always have kids in my car with me. Safety is a big thing for me.
From young, my kids have been in Britax car seats and later in booster seats. So they’ve been trained from birth that the first thing they do is put on their seat belts even though the law here does not require back passengers to be strapped in.
That’s Mom’s law they have to obey!
Through the years, driving has gotten more stressful for me because of the increasingly bad attitude of drivers. People turn without looking out for oncoming traffic. They run red lights.
They cut into your lanes without signaling. Gosh, I could write a book half a foot thick about the lousy drivers I encounter on the roads every day!!
Related PostsI picked up my daughter from school and we were driving down a straight road when, from out of nowhere, a school van comes speeding out a side street heading directly for us.
I was blasting my horn but the bus driver just kept coming at us. We both screeched to a stop and he would’ve smashed into my car dead center if he’d come one foot closer!
The stupid driver just raised his hand as some sort of apology and sped off again at the same speed that he’d been coming at us. His van was packed full of school kids and I’m sure none of them seatbelts on! I saw him again yesterday racing past the same spot at breakneck speed.
Related PostsA little girl made my day today. As I dropped my daughter off at her tutor’s house, the neighbor’s toddler saw me and waved at me, a little shyly at first but when she saw me wave back, she toddled in my direction and continued waving even as I drove away.
I brought back memories of when my girls were that age and how they used to wave to me as I pulled out of my driveway for the commute to work every morning. I hated leaving them at home and I couldn’t wait to go home after work each day to be greeted with excitement at the door.
I miss those waves and hugs and kisses. Now that they are teens, there are few too few of these any more. Sigh!
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