Spice of Life

I went to public school from Kindergarten to 12 th grade.  I can only recall one teacher that I really didn’t like but for the most part they were all great and I enjoyed going to school.  We have found that our son has difficulty with traditional school, he has experienced bullying as well as frustration with learning.  He also seems to have what appears to be horrible “luck” with the schools he ends up at.  In Seattle he had an awesome Kindergarten teacher and then when he went into 1 st grade his teacher was on the verge of being let go and his class split and added to two other classes (larger class size, NOT GOOD).  The community raised enough money to keep her on staff…yeah, something definitely wrong with that.  Then when he went into 2 nd grade there was a teacher strike, so he started about a month late and eventually started falling behind…so we pulled him out and home schooled until we moved here to Michigan.  His first year here (2 nd ...

I was inspired last year to begin a new tradition.  Rather than coming up with a New Year's resolution, I would think of a "word" for the year and my word for 2017 was "Present".  I wanted to be more present in life, more specifically with my children.  I decided I would put my phone down more and be with them, more present in conversation, more interested in what they were telling me and more active in their play.  My mom got me this bracelet that I wanted for Christmas and it will forever be a daily reminder to me of not just my word for 2017 but something I want to do every day and every year. This past year as I tried my best to be more present I noticed some things about myself.  I noticed I'm not as patient as I want to be, I get annoyed easily (too easily) and I'm WAY too serious and not as fun as I wish I were.  So I decided that my word for 2018 would be "fun", more specifically that I want to be a more fun mom.  I want to...