Parenting

Prop 8 Falls (For now)

Posted by spyderkl on August 5, 2010 at 9:36 am

I don’t think I ever told this story before. It’s been a long time ago, but I wanted to tell it today for a good reason. I almost got married 23 years ago. To my then-girlfriend. We were going to get married in a local MCC; flowers. dress and everything. We knew it wouldn’t be [...]

Big Kids

Posted by spyderkl on August 4, 2010 at 8:23 am

Today is School Girl’s first day in 3rd grade. Our school has solved their overcrowding problem by splitting up the school into 2 separate units: K-2 is at one school, 3-6 is at another school. If that sounds strange to you, perhaps it will make more sense if I tell you that our annual state [...]

Good Day Sunshine

Posted by spyderkl on July 31, 2010 at 3:06 pm

We had a visit this morning. It seems like we’ve been visited by a lot of people lately, but this visit went much better than the other one this week. So, so much better. M & C met us at the house and we all went up to town together. M seems much better and [...]

The healing power of prayerdoctors

Posted by spyderkl on July 29, 2010 at 6:01 am

I don’t write about religion much here. Or the lack of same. But this is a serious thing that affects more children than I want to think about. As a parent, I just can’t imagine not taking a child to the doctor. But there are plenty of people who don’t – not because they can’t [...]

Choke

Posted by spyderkl on July 23, 2010 at 2:41 pm

Our guest decided that she had second, third and fourth thoughts about meeting School Girl’s other family. She doesn’t feel comfortable. She doesn’t want to see the National Monument as much as she thought she did. Along with lots of other talk about “School Girl must feel confused (um, no; the relationships that she has [...]