by Laurie Rockenbeck | Feb 15, 2011 | Parenting, Uncategorized
No, this is not one of those blogs where I talk about my awesome mothering skills. Remember the term “Soccer Mom?” It has come into standard usage, and the image of a mom driving her kids to soccer practice and games in a mini-van is pretty much what pops...
by Laurie Rockenbeck | Sep 21, 2010 | Parenting
The next morning, after I’d given my daughter the drafting set to use for her geometry homework, my son came down and saw the interesting leather box on the table. Opening it, he looked at all the pretties and asked what they were for. I took out the compass...
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by Laurie Rockenbeck | Sep 16, 2010 | Grief, Memories, Moving On, Parenting
When my daughter set up a search for her compass to do her geometry homework the other night, it was nowhere to be found. It took me a long thirty seconds to decide whether or not to go ahead and cop to the fact that I had a way better compass only a few feet away. I...
by Laurie Rockenbeck | Jul 6, 2010 | Fluevog, Parenting, Shoes, Uncategorized
I’ll start with a disclaimer that I have told Emma that I’m posting this, and she said, and I don’t dare quote her directly, something to the effect that it’s okay to post this because any of her friends reading this will know about her...
by Laurie Rockenbeck | Apr 29, 2010 | Avoiding Bedtime, Beverly Cleary, Parenting, Writing
Eli’s learned that trick of asking questions to keep us up later, or rather, to prevent himself from being put to sleep on time. Emma did it for a long time before we caught on, and now, I think we’re mostly too tired to protest and just make him go to...
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