All the Things That Matter Blog

I am very tired for some reason. I could barely keep my eyes open while Erin was reading me a library book tonight. It’s already 9:30 on a Friday night. I actually have too many things rolling around in my brain, so I’m struggling to pin just one of them down. It’s been almost two...

Because she calls me a couple of times a week on her way home from school. I appreciate that more than she knows. Even on the days I can’t answer because of crazy homework circuses and whatnot. Because she’s my teacher reference. Whenever I have a question about what the kids are supposed to...

Let me begin by saying that I have no problem with homeschooling. I have many friends who do it, most of them very well. But y’all. I cannot. I just can.not. And why do I say this? Why can’t I homeschool? It’s entirely due to the daily horror that is homework. I have always despised...

After a jam-packed day, I just spent almost 3 hours at the school for an evening PTO meeting and a meet-the-candidates night for the upcoming school board elections. Y’all. It was really cool. We have a great district. There was good discussion. There were great questions. I learned a lot. Some teachers were there....

Is it just me, or have you also noticed that people don’t TALK to each other anymore? There’s little chit chat and virtually no dialogue at all. Instead, we live on the ends of a spectrum. It has ignoring other people completely on one end and violently in-your-face confrontations on the other. Clearly, neither...