Imagine A World
Last night The Rooster announced that no one in her class likes the color pink."But that’s crazy," I said. "Imagine the world without pink!""There wouldn't be any pink in the sky during sunrise or sunset!""Imagine a world without pink lemonade or baby piglets!"The Mayor and The Rooster enthusiastically added their own list of pink things that would be missed.This evolved into an elaborate game of “Imagine the world without…”We imagined the world without a wole series of colors and then shifted to letters."What would the world be like without the letter B?" I asked."No butts!" The childre

Obligatory Postween Photos
Between the Halloween Candy Buy Back Program and the age-old Inter-Sibling Trade Negotiations, I had an hour off this morning!There must be something wrong with my children though... all the chocolate candy is in the bag for the soldiers and they only kept the sour, gummy, odd things.[Suddenly I'm feeling rather Semper Fi...]The Carvers

Capacitación en la Diversidad
Last night The Rooster chose Maria Shriver's book called "What's Wrong With Timmy?" as a bed time story.The book's intent is to help kids understand that some children live with disabilities. The book primarily focuses on the strengths of children with special needs and how much we all have in common, but there is one part of the book where other children make fun of the main character, Timmy, who has Downs Syndrome. Timmy is sometimes called rude names simply because he is different. "What do you think about that?" I asked The Rooster.Roo flipped her

Turn, Turn, Turn?
We have this book...It has amazing illustrations, each page from the artistic style of a different culture.I don't quite know what to say or how to explain the book to The Mayor and The Rooster though.Oh, Biblical Scholars of the Internet, por favor esplain to me the larger meaning of Ecclesiastes 3:1-8!Is it just the simple message on the surface of the words? There is a time for everything?Or is it something else?When is it time to kill? To hate? When is it time f

Trigger
Last Friday I took The Mayor for a hearing test.It's been eight months since his ear surgery and despite the slicing and peeling off of the ear, problems persist.The Mayor's ear drum is retracting again and the ear is filled with fluid.His hearing test results show an arc of hearing loss similar to the results we saw prior to the surgery.Despite the scary reality that my son's jugular vein runs through his middle ear and the fact that the surgeon said "if I NEVER see the interior of your kid's ear again it will be too soon," it looks like more surgery is required.Th