Snootyvixen

Raising my two youngest daughters to respect money is a becoming a challenge. My approach toward their weekly allowance probably differs vastly from most parents views on the topic; though, on hearing my rationale, many parents I’ve spoken to agree that it’s a good idea. Paris is 10 and Ciel is 9. They each receive [...]

This post has been going around and around in my mind tonight. To the point where I just had to get online and write. Since their father moved to Oklahoma two years ago, my girls haven’t really had an authoritative male figure in their short lives. Of course there’s Grandpa, but Grandpa has to be [...]

I felt the same way that I did on the first day my girls went to kindergarten. They disappeared through the double doors into a sea of kids. After a few seconds I couldn’t even see them. I had just handed my girls off to a group of strangers and would not see them for [...]

Shorty Doo Wop turned 9 today. It wasn’t really ceremonious .. see, she can’t wait for her gifts. So, when Lanie (the American Girl doll) arrived earlier this week, she HAD to open the package. When Paris bought her a new Webkinz for her birthday, she HAD to enter the tag on the website to [...]

Yesterday we welcomed a new addition to the family. Her name is Lanie. Lanie is Ciel’s birthday gift from her Grandma & Grandpa McEwan and me, and though Ciel’s birthday isn’t until Friday, Lanie arrived today and she bugged me and bugged me and bugged me until I let her open the box. Lanie is [...]

Ciel wants to watch “Lost”. What are we in now? Season 6? The final season – and she wants to start watching it. I will confess, we watched the pre-show show that went through the previous five seasons incredibly quickly and I know why they call it Lost, because I’m completely lost! I admit that [...]

The decision is made. Shorty has been responsible (as far as she can be responsible) for a week. The hamster is a given. We need to call Grandma to let her know. I just won’t let Ciel know until Sunday. Sunday is the deadline. Something drastic could still happen which would cause me to change [...]

So, there is a strange side to raising spiritually-aware children (and I know that my god-fearing friends will take this in the spirit it was written … pun intended) I’m not talking about the “church” type of spiritual. I’m speaking of all things ethereal, ghostly and well … spritual! I remember, back in the day [...]

Paris: “Look at Pucci, she’s a ho-cat” Me: “She’s a what?” Ciel: “A ho-cat!” Me: “So what is a ho-cat?” Paris: “She’s in the paper bag” Ciel: “You know, like a hobo, but she’s a cat” Paris” “A ho-cat” Ciel: “but wait, you don’t call a homeless human a ho-human.”

Just because the babygirl has an ache in her chest. Just because she had a fever when I picked her up from school. Just because she slept from the moment she came home until it was time for dinner, and then from when she finished eating until she went to bed. Just because …. Ciel [...]