Apparently, Peanut Butter & Jelly Has Been Dead Since ’98

by Mocha Momma on May 13, 2012

Mallory is kind of dramatic, or was, in her Mother’s Day letters to me. This letter is from 1998 when she was 11 years old. No corrections were made to spelling or sentence structure. ….. Mom: My best friend I have a secret I’ve never told you….I love you! What? Your thinking. She’s told me [...]

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I am Mom Enough

by Mocha Momma on May 10, 2012

I can’t possibly spend time linking to that horrible piece of bait by Time magazine and have decided instead to think about how I’m plenty enough for my children. But, okay, I’ll take the bait for the purpose of discussion. I am mom enough for them and for the other kids in my life. I [...]

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New Kid Birthday

May 9, 2012

Parenting brings about a whole lot of weird feelings and gratefulness and that’s no different with the new kids in our family. Grant turned 19 on Sunday and we got to celebrate him with a lot of concentrated family time and, of course, food. Kaylee woke up and made him butterscotch pancakes and his dad, [...]

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Follow The Money

May 2, 2012

Back in the Fall when I was home sick one day and still managed to sit up in bed to get some work done I came upon an educational video by Morna McDermott who is a professor of education and an administrator of the United Opt-Out movement whereby parents and educators are refusing to take [...]

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A List from 1980

April 29, 2012

Over at Babble today I am exploring why I have made as many lists during my lifetime as I have. It must be a sickness, really, because they are everywhere in my house and some of them go back a long way. Reading it forces me to think about what my 9-year old brain was [...]

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Little Water Warriors

April 28, 2012

We tried to get Matt Damon, Water Warrior to appear at our school yesterday for our 6th grade culminating activity, but he was a no show. That’s okay, Matt. MEET ME ON THE PLAYGROUND AFTER SCHOOL. In any case, our students still did a tremendous job of this project based learning and have worked on this with [...]

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Paralyzed

April 24, 2012

It has been a strange couple of weeks for me. There’s the usual OH GOD, GET IT DONE part of April that impending May brings with end-of-the-school-year chaos. There’s fantastic stuff going on at school (or, as I sometimes call it, “work”) and the students and teachers are finishing up some incredible culminating projects. There’s [...]

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I Did Not Get Eaten By A Bear

April 18, 2012

  That title is for my friends who keep suggesting that I must have been eaten by a bear since I haven’t blogged about Alaska yet. Why do people keep asking me that? And why did everyone want to know if I was going to see Sarah Palin while I was there? [Sidenote: in the [...]

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Expect Great Things

April 7, 2012

Next week I have a trip planned. It didn’t originally begin as a trip I sought to take, but I’m going nonetheless. The best part about this trip is that I’ve managed to sync this with my work in my school and our “becoming global citizens” mission statement. I work in a technology magnet school [...]

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a birthday manifesto | what I know now

April 3, 2012

  Recently I mentioned, albeit briefly, that I’d like to write a manifesto but I was thinking more along the lines of “on race and social identity” and then my birthday happened (just now, to be sure) and I’ll put the other on hold to reflect on what I know now at 41. I didn’t [...]

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