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Color Our Neighborhood Red, White and Blue

Posted on May 18, 2008 | Comments Off on Color Our Neighborhood Red, White and Blue

As much as I complain about the political correctness and other regimentation of Mr. Boy’s public school, I have to acknowledge a wonderful move by the school’s PTA, in cooperation with the school district: giving each kid ten small stick flags for selling to neighbors at a dollar each "focused on Memorial Day and honoring those who have served our country…we want to see these flags everywhere." The money will go to school’s endowment fund for books, classroom materials, etc.

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Scrappers win

Posted on May 14, 2008 | Comments Off on Scrappers win

Mr. B.’s Little League team won its first playoff game this afternoon, beating the Diamond Jaxx 4-3. He hit a double in the third inning and scored the second run. But he struck out his next time at bat, ending the inning with the bases loaded. He swung the bat into the ground, reminding me of some famous pro baller’s remark (I wish I could remember who), that the worst thing about baseball is to strike out looking. At least Mr. B. went down swinging. If the Scrappers win their next game on Saturday… Well, better not to get ahead of ourselves. Today’s win was their first in four games, after all.

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Happy Mother’s Day

Posted on May 11, 2008 | Comments Off on Happy Mother’s Day

Mr. B. held the fort while I went to the grocery at the crack of nine a.m. for flowers, frozen pancakes, fruit and orange juice. We’d all come in late last night from his Little League team’s last-game-of-the-season pool party (they lost the game 5-3, but Mr. B. got a good hit, even if he was thrown out at first), then Mom and I stayed up later reading. All made up by 9:30, Mr. B. presented everything for breakfast-in-bed, but Mom chose to come to the table instead. Then he handed over his card with promise coupons, such as cleaning his room without complaint. A revolutionary idea, right there. One of these years, he can drive to the grocery and get it all done himself. I await the day. 😉

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Iron Man or wimp?

Posted on May 6, 2008 | Comments Off on Iron Man or wimp?

Hollyweird either does it again: "[M]ust we be tricked into sitting through another America-as-root-of-all-evil message?" Or it doesn’t: "Iron Man is not a pacifist movie, and it bends over backwards to be pro-military and pro-government, even in the midst of speeches about how weapons are evil." It’s a battle of the reviews. You decide. Not me. I already hate the sticky floors, and Mr. B. has enough fantasy in his life as it is.

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Pinky vs elbow promises

Posted on May 4, 2008 | Comments Off on Pinky vs elbow promises

Mr. B. informs me that a second-grade pinky promise, made by hooking pinky fingers with a friend and repeating the promise out loud, can be broken. Apparently adults do these, too. But an elbow promise, involving a palm-out high-five, a back of the hand high-five, and a linking of arms while repeating the promise, can’t be broken without retribution. "You get sent to kid jail," he said. A form of ostracism, presumably. I can’t find elbow promise on Google.

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Breaking the slump

Posted on April 27, 2008 | Comments Off on Breaking the slump

The Scrappers beat the Sidewinders Saturday 3-2, which was good, elevating the Scrappers’ season to eight wins and three losses. But the big news was that Mr. B. broke his batting slump. He’d been striking out over and over for several games, usually on called strikes, the new, disconcerting wrinkle in his Little League play this year–so disconcerting it often provokes tears and mutterings about unfair umpires. So Saturday he hit a grounder. He was thrown out at first, but he was smiling, glad to have finally made contact.

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The reader

Posted on April 26, 2008 | Comments Off on The reader

Mr. B.’s second grade teacher sends home a sheet every week wherein he is supposed to log his daily reading of AR (Advanced Reader) books–at least twenty minutes a day. In fact, he reads an average of an hour each day, and by the end of each week has close to four hundred minutes of total reading. So far he prefers fantasy stories. The Pendragon series is his latest favorite. Also Magyk, the first of a trilogy plus. Products, I suppose, of our previous bedtime reading of Harry Potter, Narnia and Lord of the Rings. Despite his own reading, he still likes to be read to, especially at bedtime–fortunately for Mom and Dad, who would miss it more than he might. Someday, I know, the bedtime stories will end. But not too soon, we hope. I have sent off for Tom Sawyer, Detective, now that Huckleberry Finn is drawing to a close.

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