Anne Spollen's Blog, page 11
April 13, 2009
Spring, Teeneggers and All
Happy Spring Everyone! Kids are home, so it's picture blog time:
Emma's Easter Tree:
Emma, just delighted to be snapped by my visiting family:
Hubby, escaping the full house for a few hours:
A Delighted Philip at the Easter Table:
And in a holiday tradition that is truly our own, my uncle, getting his ear hair trimmed:
We're planting a garden and working through school projects. See everyone next week, and hope your Easter was happy![image error]
Emma's Easter Tree:
Emma, just delighted to be snapped by my visiting family:
Hubby, escaping the full house for a few hours:
A Delighted Philip at the Easter Table:
And in a holiday tradition that is truly our own, my uncle, getting his ear hair trimmed:
We're planting a garden and working through school projects. See everyone next week, and hope your Easter was happy![image error]
April 6, 2009
Shakespeare, Teens, and the East
This is a picture of Philip, as taken by Philip:
This is a picture of me, as taken by Philip:
This is a picture of the guy that is causing problems:
It began yesterday when we were cleaning his room "together" which meant I gathered glackis (a term my daughter uses to describe the plates with spoons or forks stuck to them)while he sat on his bed texting his friends. I came across an answer sheet on Romeo and Juliet. The question was:
Why, in your opinion, does Romeo kill Tybalt? Philip's response?
B
This is a picture of me, as taken by Philip:
This is a picture of the guy that is causing problems:
It began yesterday when we were cleaning his room "together" which meant I gathered glackis (a term my daughter uses to describe the plates with spoons or forks stuck to them)while he sat on his bed texting his friends. I came across an answer sheet on Romeo and Juliet. The question was:
Why, in your opinion, does Romeo kill Tybalt? Philip's response?
B
March 31, 2009
Perfect Parenting
When I was a first time mother, I was fairly insane. Looking back on it, the fairly seems a generous modifier. I do remember taking my son to the pediatrician and explaining to the doctor how I had all these books and notes on how to take care of (my then) one week old son. He looked at me, and asked why I had done all that.
I thought that was pretty obvious. "So I don't make a mistake."
He was an elderly man, almost ready to retire. He laughed when I said this. "Honey, you are going to make mis
March 26, 2009
Shopping, Teens, Jeans and Challenged Lives
The other day, my birthday boy needed pants. Now, if I needed pants, I would put it on the never ending list of things that need to get done like planting bushes, buying a new couch and picking up some pants. But he's a newly minted 15, and he needed pants RIGHT NOW.
I explained to him that I was exhausted, that I haven't had a spare minute since last Friday, and it was already past 8. He wasn't buying. He had to have jeans RIGHT NOW. So I agreed to go, but only if he would listen to me explain h
March 20, 2009
Fifteenth Birthday: March 19, 2009
Happy Fifteenth Birthday to Philip:
So happy to have his picture taken. It gets difficult to come up with ways to celebrate birthdays when the birthday guest is of a certain reluctant age and way too cool for party hats or games.
But we tried. The current color that is cool in Philip's circle is purple, a hot, neon kind of purple that reminds me of the sixties, and not the good part of the sixties. His little sister and I tried to dye the cupcake icing that color:
Philip's guests pronounced them "
So happy to have his picture taken. It gets difficult to come up with ways to celebrate birthdays when the birthday guest is of a certain reluctant age and way too cool for party hats or games.
But we tried. The current color that is cool in Philip's circle is purple, a hot, neon kind of purple that reminds me of the sixties, and not the good part of the sixties. His little sister and I tried to dye the cupcake icing that color:
Philip's guests pronounced them "
