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Posted on Friday, May 18, 2012 11:27 AM
Silas has had four good days at school this week. In a row. When I told him today how proud I was of him as we pulled away from the school, his response surprised me. "Jesus took all the badness away and put in His goodness." His words were confirmed by Captain Fun when we got home. Silas wanted to pray a few nights ago, he said, to trust Christ as his savior. Perhaps he heard something that stirred him at church, or maybe at home during family devotions. |
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Posted on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 9:27 AM
In all my years of mothering, I have found that guilt is not always a bad thing. Once in a while, guilt compels me to put down the broom and pick up a Barbie to play with Dorothy. And when we lived in the snowy northeast, guilt (and Captain Fun) would coax me outside to play in the snow ( seehttp://www.margiesims.com/blog/2011/02/27/Captain-Fun-Strikes-Again.aspx ). But guilt shouldn't be permitted to constantly haunt us moms who are doing our level best to parent on purpose. |
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Posted on Tuesday, May 01, 2012 11:01 AM
Sniff, sniff. Is that smoke? I thought. No, just dust on the heater after it's been off all summer. The nights had begun to get nippy, as my dad use to say, and the heat had been due to come on. I lay there for a while, when suddenly Captain Fun jumped out of bed. |
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Posted on Friday, April 20, 2012 11:58 AM
Silas has attended VPK since January, and just as I feared, he often gets in trouble at school. "Silas has been saying 'poopy head' in class today," his teacher told me one morning when I picked him up. "I gave him a warning about saying things like that in class but he kept saying it." |
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Posted on Friday, April 13, 2012 9:49 AM
Silas started preschool in January. And while I have taken advantage of part time preschool on and off over the years, I have always felt that, if at all possible, my kids are better off at home with me until kindergarten. Florida has a program called Voluntary Pre Kindergarten or VPK for short. It's part of the public school system, so it's tax funded. It's three hours a day M-F. But because it is every day, I didn't even consider it at first. |
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