Brutal because: Really? You're too big? Already? But you were just born, Chase.
Beautiful because: Really? You read The Giving Tree and thought of your mama?
They really are paying attention, ladies. I think it might all be worth it.
Happy Monday, Lovies. Deep breaths.
G
For us parents without school age children yet and who are technologically unlearned, please explain what text-to-text, text-to-self and text-to-world mean...
ReplyDeleteLove that Chase.
Ha, ha, ha, my verfication word was: allbs
ReplyDeleteOh my, this time it was: bashbj
ReplyDeleteHmmm...
how sweet! and, yes, lots of deep breaths, less yelling this week. trying hard not to be a jerk over here with a 3 year old going on 4. Sigh. It's so nice when they can form brutiful thoughts like that!
ReplyDeleteI second the trying not to be a jerk with a teething monster of a 14 month old. Did I just call my baby a monster?????
ReplyDeleteThis is definitely brutiful G! Happy Monday to you. Chase is a keeper.
Tricia
seriously, Chase has the best hand writing for a kid his age AND he spelled everything correct. Ok, I am trying not to compare but my kid is in 3rd grade and yours is in first and I can barely read her writing.
ReplyDeleteBreathing and being a little jealous but that's ok, she's ok and she'll get there one day.
Jennifer,
ReplyDeleteChase has a reading/writing teacher for a mother. If it makes you feel better, nobody in my house knows how to count above five.
:)
BTW, T is more than okay. She is both absolutely perfect and a work in progress...just like each of us. So much love to you.
G
Love G
G. Lady,
ReplyDeleteMy daughter needs some healing words today, could you come and give her some monkee love on my blog?
Also very impressed with Chase's handwriting. And the contents of the words. I bet he still lets you kiss him!
Tova
Hi lovies.
ReplyDeleteSorry I took this down for a bit.
I got nervous when J said it made her worry about her little one's writing. The idea of causing another mama to worry makes me want to stick a fork in each eyeball.
But I just put it back up because I am trying to become calmer in general. And I was thinking that a calm person probably would not have panicked and sweat and jumped up and down at the computer and shook her hands really hard and then held her breath and taken the post down. All of which I actually did.
I am not at all stable enough for this blogging gig. But I will keep trying anyway.
love,love,love,
G
@Jeanette... text-to-text is a way for kids to look at what they are reading and make connections with something else they read, text-to-self is to make those connections with something in their life and text-to-world is to make those connections with something they know about in the greater world (for my kids, often TV)
ReplyDeletePS -- I love Shel Silverstein!
So happy Brutiful is back up : ) Sweet Chase takes my breath away. Such an enormous heart. One sentence like that from my little man and I would be charged for life. Keep doing what you're doing, G, and inspiring me and so many others...
ReplyDeleteGlad you put it back up. It's lovely, and you are keeping a great perspective on what he wrote.
ReplyDeleteI'd also like to add that Chase has better handwriting than my kids too. Also better than mine.
Incredibly sweet!
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh, you are so silly. You should know me well enough now to know I am the one that is not stable, lol.
ReplyDeleteRight now I'm dressed in my PJ's, Monkee hoodee and I'm walking out the door to go to therapy. Hubby says to me "see you in a month. I fully expect your therapist to commit you tonight when you show up looking like that and if she doesn't, I want our money back."
Please don't ever take anything I say too seriously (except the above, because I really am in my PJ's and heading out the door).
OK OK so Chase has better handwriting and spelling than my two 2nd graders put together but to add a little brevity to the comparing our children thing...mine (the daughters of their artist mother) would have in fact CIRCLED the phrase rather than put a square around it. :)
ReplyDeleteTeasing teasing teasing!! xoxox
I am actually most impressed by the correct usage of "too" and "to". I know several adults who can't distinguish between them. :)
ReplyDeleteSo brutiful! My oldest son has taken to saying, "Jamie heavy boy." Every time I pick him up. Now, he is heavy (36lbs at 2 years old), but I just tell him that he's big and strong and lots for me to cuddle. I don't want the day to come that he's too big for me to pick him up! I know that it'll come all too soon for all three of them, though.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry I've missed so many Momasteries. It took us a while to get settled and get back on the internet down under. The trip went well and the boys are all thriving. It is such an adventure for all of us. Particularly me, I've made the decision to stop working for the company that I've been with for 10 years and be a full-time stay at home mom. I'm sure I'm making lots of mistakes (like fast food for lunch every day), but we are starting to find our rhthym.
Thanks again to all the Monkees for their thoughts and prayers. We made it through bedrest, emergency c-section, 17 days in the NICU, 15 days in a hotel, and a 30-hour trip on 3 planes to get here. And, I couldn't have done it without all of you!!!
Sister, THAT is a text-to-soul reference, and I felt it from here.
ReplyDeleteThat boy is gonna love you all the days of your stump life.
Amazing.
Sister
Yes, and when they get really big you realize that they did take in those life-lessons you thought they didn't get!
ReplyDeleteHeather - So excited for you and so glad to hear from you again.
ReplyDeleteOh that breaks my heart. I hate it that I can't pick Katie up anymore and that she has to be the one to walk when the boys both need a stroller or a piggy-back and that she knows she's getting bigger and I know it and neither of us is ready. These are the things I feel sad about. And not being able to easily snuggle all three of them at once anymore now that they're all getting so big.
ReplyDeleteI'm not even kidding - these are the exact things that have been eating me up. Growing up is hard, isn't it?