Snootyvixen

We push our kids to do their best. As good parents, it just seems right. And with two Honor Roll students in the house I don’t think my youngest are doing too badly at all. In elementary school – well, grades 4 and 5, all A’s on your report card means Gold Honor Roll. A’s [...]

She’s gone to Chicago. Left this morning in a better mood than normal (but only because she wanted to borrow my headphones.) Nugget loves band. She plays trumpet, and does so very well, if I do say so myself! This opportunity came up a while ago though school, and – thanks to a partial scholarship [...]

… get away. Get a good job with more pay and you’re OK. Those are the words, but that’s not the subject of this post – though it could be very soon. (shhh, it’s a secret … for now!) I’ve been both lauded and criticized for my method of doling out allowances to my two [...]

The whole school has had an assignment this year. The theme was “Everyone Has a Story”, and different classes too different approaches to writing a book. Paris’s class was to write about the topic of “Heroes”. The school held an “Everyone Has a Story” night, where parents could come and read all the books, it [...]

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 [...]