This morning I hosted a playdate for my son and three other little boys. My son was really struggling to get along with them, for many reasons. For one, my son was the youngest, so he was having trouble following the "rules" of their games, and frustrating them. Also, the other boys spend a lot of time with each other, and they seemed to get a kick out of acting like Jafta was a complete social parasite. And then, my son has the typical 3-year-old tendencies of not sharing, not following . . .
He Passed!
Mark passed his first of two exams to become a licensed Marriage & Family Therapist. One more to go . . .The second test has a 51% pass rate, so he will need to do lots of studying. Unfortunately the test is very different from when I took it six years ago, so I am no help! . . .
Beach Day
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Happiness at the Misfortune of Others
DEF schadenfreude SHOD-n-froy-duh, noun: a malicious satisfaction obtained from the misfortunes of others.My kids love a book called "No, David". It is the first choice for reading of both my toddler and preschooler. I first saw this book in a bookstore, and thought that the depictions of this rascly little boy and the trouble he gets in to portrayed a negative message to kids. On every page, David is doing something naughty and being chastised by his mother. I thought, what a negative book, and . . .
Happy Easter
Today was a beautiful Easter. We woke up early, and the kids had the surprise of easter eggs hidden through the house. They had lots of fun finding them, and then we went to church together and then to Grandma's house. Yet another easter hunt at Grandma's house, and by now the kids are pro's. But most importantly, they looked very, very cute in their easter clothes. . . .
He Is Risen Indeed
Our church held Easter at the OC Fairgrounds again this year, and packed out the Pacific Amphitheater. There are some days that I am just so proud of our church community, and today was one of them. The message was an artistic expression of the Easter story, told through percussion and dance. Much like STOMP, but with a little more meaning. It was so inspirational, and yet the opposite of preachy. I love being a part of a church body that values the arts, and has the guts to do something really . . .
Speaking of Mutual Enjoyment
This is Mark's idea of doing something he loves with Jafta:Now if only he can get India on board. No pun intended. . . .
Mutual Enjoyment
I'm always looking for activities to do with the kids that are actually enjoyable for me too. Not that I don't love pretending to be an alligator all day long (what adult wouldn't), but sometimes I just want to do something that I enjoy too. Something that makes me feel like a part of the day was by my own choice. But it's hard work figuring out ways to eek out "me time" with two kids in tow. And since they don't enjoy art museums or avant-guard theatre quite yet, I'm left with . . . walking. . . .
Is yours the black kid?
It's always funny seeing people trying to be PC about our transracial family. It's like everyone is scared to say the word "black" or describe him in those terms. I am constantly chuckling to myself when people will say, "is that your son over there, with the blue shirt, and jeans?" or "is your son the one with dreadlocks?". Particularly because in most scenarios here in vanilla OC, he is the one-and-only black child in a 20-mile radius. So why does it seems so weird just to cut to the chase and . . .
The Softer Side of Sears
We just had another round of family photos at Sears. I always promise myself I won't go back to a mall-type studio, because I have had so many experiences of teenage photographers wasting my time and taking bad shots of the kids while they have a complete and total meltdown. Those studios are tough because they don't shoot rapidly enough to catch the kids in action, and then the space is so small that the kids are always running out of the camera range.And yet there I was two weeks ago, in the . . .
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