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Lessons I learned about Love: From my 6 year old

Thursday, January 28, 2016

Sending Kye off to a big, public school this year was scary for me. He's my first born. Everything that he experiences for the first time, I too, experience for the first time. We are a little over halfway through the school year and it's really been a wonderful experience so far, at least until a few days ago. Kye came home off the bus with tears in his eyes and told me about an incident that occurred. He was sitting with his friend, we'll call him John, and was looking at a paper from school. He went to put the paper in his book bag and John told Kye to give him the paper because he wanted to eat it. Kye said no and stood his ground that he wasn't going to give him the paper. John proceeded to punch and pinch Kye repeatedly. Kye yelled out to a  child nearby to help him and John took Kye's jacket and put it over Kye's face to muffle his cries for help. Kye said John eventually stopped and then was kind to Kye for the rest of the bus ride. Kye told John ...

Pre-Christmas Activities 2015

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

I don't mind that my blog is usually several weeks behind real life except when it comes to the holidays. Who wants to read about Christmas at the end of Jan, right? So I try to combine stuff into longer posts to get it all done quicker :) Spoiler alert: this was probably the best Christmas holiday season for my family ever :) I think it takes time to figure out how to best handle the holidays as a family and with changes to my side of the family dynamic it took time to readjust things. This year was amazing!  I think a lot of that had to do with starting to celebrate early . We have a LOT of holiday traditions and we spread them out and were better able to enjoy each one rather than feeling overwhelmed about them all at once. When I say we spread 'em out...I mean it! I actually took the kids to Hobby Lobby to pick out their ornaments to add to their trees in their room in October . Hobby Lobby's ornaments get picked over super mega fast! We were already there and ...
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