Adventures in Bennionland

On the way home from school we had the following discussion:

Will: “Who are all the boys in this state that we love Walker?”
Walker names most of the boy relatives but forgets to mention Alan.
Me: “What about Uncle Alan?”
Walker: “Yeah we love Uncle Alan.”
Will: “Jen and Alan live in the capital. Sacramento. That’s the capital part of California.”
Me: “Yep.”
Will: “Mom, we live in the lowercase part of California.”

Ha ha. I tried to explain that we live in the lower half of California but for Will it’s the lowercase. Thanks Kindergarten!

PS – no one told me how AWESOME the rides home from school would be. The boys, glad to see each other at least for the first ten minutes, tell each other the strangest things!

PPS – volunteering in the classroom is also awesome. More to come on that later.

I have to much to tell you about. So many stories to relate, pictures to share, and ways to make you smile. I’d like to say that I don’t have the time, but that isn’t wholly true. Blogging is just not a priority right now. And it will be again, after I feel like I am back into a routine*.

In the meantime I wanted to share something that really touched me. I “met” Liz through the online gluten-free world. She’s the co-contributor to Kill.The.Gluten and I’ve sent some recipes their way, and used their site quite a bit.

I started following her other, personal, blog a while ago and find such comfort in much of what she writes. Sometimes, like in THIS post, it is like she reads my mind and then manages to eloquently write about it.

I had to share it with you. More on us later.

(*I am learning that even though I am so routine oriented I CAN be flexible!!)

In parenthood there are battles everywhere. Parenting magazines and manuals tell us to learn to choose them.

Still, when I walked into the shoe store with the boys I had a defined notion of what shoes we were going to avoid. Light-up shoes. The boys have had them before and I was ready to move past them.

However, when they saw the new ones…they were thrilled.

And it was totally worth it: