February 24, 2009 – 11:34 am
We’ve been visiting a local church and the boys are really clueless. Both Colin and Evan have eaten breakfast, but as soon as they walk into the foyer, they are eying the food (”refreshments”) on the church-length folding table. Last week, the church had a special part in their service for those who wanted to [...]
February 4, 2009 – 2:39 pm
Some call me “obsessed.”
I’m growing tired of people talking about my coffee. Honestly, it’s none of your business how much coffee I drink or what variation I have in my venti cup. Perhaps a couple of times a week, some yahoo will conclude “You’re obsessed with coffee, you know?”
It’s taxing, these little conversations or pronouncements [...]
December 16, 2008 – 11:09 pm
The boys find talking about farting as being pretty funny. And they’ve just spent the trip from South Third Street to piano lessons in the 1993 Ford Escort Wagon while it was snowing trying to come up the substitute words for fart. Lori laid down the law in her frustration with the boys starting the [...]
October 29, 2008 – 9:45 pm
Colin’s at his piano lesson and I’m noticing his outfit for today: Faded navy blue cotton pants and a cranberry-colored plaid shirt. It’s a nice outfit, except he has the pants and the shirt on backward. Apparently it’s Red Ribbon Week at his school and if I remember correctly, he and his school mates will [...]
(on having a former teacher asking me what’s been happening in my life since 1984 via Facebook)
Dear Mr. Noble,
And I start that way because what student has the gall to called their teacher by the first name? It just sounds and feels funny, so I’ll simply address you the same way I did in high [...]
It’s not a question I enjoy since the youngest son has become obsessed with Meredeth Vieira. If you remember the special features on the DVD version of The Lion King 1 ½, there’s the “test your knowledge” of “all things Disney Lion King” in the form of “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” called “Who [...]
I thought it was quite humorous too. It had been a day that began with me being slightly hostile toward…well, a few things: being moved to another room so my classroom could be used for retesting of the ISTEP and a faculty meeting that had me say some things that ran contrary to most of [...]
By Vergil
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Also posted in Belief, Coffee Stains, Culture, Indiana, chess, education
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Tagged chess, coercing, Evan, ISTEP, PlayStation, tuesday
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That’s what we call it. Straight from the Jewish Old Testament, every 7 years all debts were forgiven and it was a time of celebration. So, how does that translate over to the boys in our house in 2008?
Simple: PlayStation.
Accuse us of being controlling or applaud us for limiting computer use, but we allow [...]
And it’s probably because those are the few words I know…well, the lead in to chorus and something that rhymes with “name.” I think I heard in a church once where people were more friendly in bars than in church and that “Shouldn’t the church be friendlier than a bunch of sinners getting drunk?” I [...]
February 20, 2008 – 7:19 pm
Tonight the 7-year-old informed me that Mom said “We could get a four-legged guinea pig” and I told him that his mother “wasn’t right in the head.”
He thought that was funny and went and told Mom what I said and she laughed.
Don’t try and read into the 7-year-old’s compound adjective of “four-legged,” I think he [...]
