Ethan: “Whoever invented the word, ‘nuh-uh’ must have been super weird.” Me: “It isn’t a word, dude.” Ethan: “Well, technically it IS a word.” Me: “Um, no. It is not.” Ethan: “Then why do so many people say it?” Me: “People make up words all the time.” Ethan: “That’s just weird.”
Author Archives: Abi Bowling
FLASHBACK: It’s in the teaching
January 16, 2012 – 11:20 am
Every once in a while I look through my past writing and dust off something from the vault. I originally wrote this in January, 2009, on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Ethan was almost four. I told Ethan there was no school today because it was a special holiday called Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. […]
ALMOST anything
November 22, 2011 – 9:05 pm
Every night when I tuck the kids into bed, I usually have a little something that I say to each of them, privately. Just a little something for just the two of us, because it’s hard to be one of three kids in a house (I know from experience), vying for a parent’s attention. More […]
Um… oh yeah… I forgot to tell you…
November 18, 2011 – 11:35 pm
Summer seems like a forever ago. So much has happened since, like this… and other things like, you know, life. Summer and the chaos that encompassed it are now almost a dream. The last of the medical bills have been paid and filed away, and puffy, red scar-tissue is looking less… angry. Children can be […]
