Calvin & Hobbes

Jason,

You have read every single Calvin & Hobbes strip ever made about 83 times. Here goes 84...

2016 Interviews

3rd Grade Wrap Up

Jason, this was a big year for you...your last in Lower School. This poem describes you perfectly.

Kindergarten

What a year you had in Kindergarten! You fell in love with teachers, friends, and learning. I had so much fun watching you create and grow.

"Once upon a time was a dog and a wolf and they played games and boxed and wrestled and played baseball and soccer and football and scratched trees."

Happy Birthday Matthew

#6 Needless to say, I'm pretty impressed with my cake decorating skills right now...

Growing too fast

Jason's shoes are grey. Mom's shoes are black. And they are precisely the same size.

First tooth!!

My absolute least favorite part of parenting is loose teeth! Ewwww. You don't seem to mind it, and you pulled your first one out all by yourself. Thanks!

Happy Halloween

Seeing Harry Potter doubles

Irony

That one time I wore colors and Mamo chose BLACK.

First Day

Happy first day of school! Kindergarten and 3rd Grade. Matthew, you were SO excited to finally join your brother on the bus! 

2015 Interviews

The world according to you guys, 2015 edition...

Matthew, you were in a silly mood! (And for the record, Jason has never punched you in the face. That little nod was your really bad poker face.)

Parenting Goals

Parenting. Sometimes we get lost in the grades and travel teams and college admissions and homework and broccoli and teeth brushing and math proficiency and batting averages and room cleanups and chores. And we miss out on the good stuff.

This is the good stuff.

Dad is the best Dad

Mom is the best Mom

Matthew is the best brother

and Jason loves 

them the most.

Life Lesson #2

People who leave their weights on gym equipment are the worst. 

Also, the girls are there to work out, not to be picked up ;)

25 Things About Mom

Several years back, this was a thing. I posted 25 Random Things About Jason on this blog way back then, but I just came across the one I wrote about myself. It is from February 2009, so some things have changed...most notably, there was no Matthew yet!

1) Okay, I give in. I've been tagged by this too many times to continue putting it off...

2) I am a master procrastinator.

3) I love making lists and crossing things off. Often, if I accomplish something that wasn't on my list, I'll write it down and then cross it off just to get the satisfaction.

4) I almost always finish my Christmas shopping in November.

5) I almost always send out Christmas packages in January. (see #2)

6) I have two sons, Michael Patrick and Jason Henry. Michael was stillborn in 2006 and I miss him every day. Jason was born screaming his healthy lungs out in 2007. That scream was the best sound in the whole entire universe.

7) I hate it when strangers ask me how many children I have. I usually lie and feel guilty about it later.

8) I also hate it when people refer to stillbirth as "miscarriage."

9) I am not a fantastic housekeeper, but I insist on freakish order in certain places (paperwork, DVDs, books, pantry, closets)

10) I don't mind diapers, but I HATE HATE HATE cleaning sippy cups.

11) I am a fast and frequent reader.

12) When I got engaged at 20 everyone thought I was crazy.

13) I wasn't ;)

14) I once got a D- in college (Materials Science). Which is actually pretty impressive, when you consider I showed up to 3 classes (first day, midterm, final) and didn't turn in an end-of-term project.

15) I tried the "attend 3 classes" routine in Statistics and got an A-.

16) I know the names of all the "Thomas" trains.

17) I call my Mom & Daddy every day.

18) I did not watch television on a regular basis until I married my husband.

19) I have not slept more than three consecutive hours since Jason was born.

20) I used to dance and miss it terribly.

21) I hate my husband's cat.

22) I never thought of myself as very "Mommy-ish." But it turns out I am!

23) I get my hair cut about once/year.

24) I have lived in 22 different houses/apartments.

25) If I could spend the day with any two people, I would choose Jon & Jason. I guess that makes me a lucky girl!

Sleep Tight

Seems my hobby is taking photos of sleeping brothers. You start on opposite sides of a king sized bed, and within a few minutes you look like this:

It's Funny Because It's True

"You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up."
                 -- Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

Embrace the crazy, boys!

Comet Batdog

A little snapshot of Comet's first 10 months!

Fish! By: Jason

Jason,

A sample of your school work at the end of 1st grade. I love watching you learn and grow!

Love, Mom

Introduction: Cast, Bite, reel, a fish!

Read this Book to 

Learn about Fishing! 

Have you gone fishing? 

I have. It is fun. You 

shold read this Book!

Chapter 1 Puting on Bate

First Put bate on a hook. Cast

the line out. wait. 

If youre a kid ask an adult 

for help. The hook might poke you.

Its really painFull!

Chapter 2 feeling

If you feel somthing it mihgt 

Be a fish. It might Be seaweed.

It looks lik the pole Bending when you

get a fish. Somtimes it is seaweed.

Mabye it's the waves.

3 reeling

When you think you find 

a fish reel. See what it is. What is

it? A fish! See my

fish on my

Granddad's 

Computer for the spisices.

True! Ive caught

13 spisies of fish

4 catching

If you Hav a fish Choose to eat it 

or not. if you choose to eat if you

want to keep fishing you can. 

If you want to stop you can to.

5 Whihging

I think you kow what im gonna say

next! whihging! if the fish is 5 lBs

you can eat all of it if its 181 lBs 

it will take long to eat. Choose

4 lBs. Thats perfect! Really.

I'm seuriuos. Big groupers

are ENOURMOUS!

If you eat

181 lbs

you'd get

surgery

2014 Interviews

2013 Interviews