You Don't Have To Like Me
Blog URL http://youdonthavetolikeme.blogspot.com
Located Queen Creek, Arizona USA
All about life as a busy working mother of two gifted student athletes, and my views on how I'm raising them. I'm alternately blessed and cursed, but I wouldn't have it any other way!
Latest Blog Posts
- There's Always A Smile On This Boy on Nov 20, 2009 in Photo Story Friday
This picture isn't recent. And the story isn't about this shot specifically. But every time I look at this picture of the top of Bug's head, I laugh and smile. The fact that my boys are 5 years apart, with one in high school where Every. Single. Mome...
- Little Bits on Nov 18, 2009 in Heartbreaks of High School The Trials of Being Boys
I witnessed what might arguably (wow does that word look funny all typed out!) be one of the sweetest acts of brotherhood to come out of my oldest son the other day. There is a bully in our neighborhood. A bully that is just slightly older than Bug.
- Penny For Your Thoughts on Nov 13, 2009 in Photo Story Friday Ramblings
Take a good look at those pennies. They might look like two ordinary pennies, but really look at them. Look at the differences, at what each penny has been through.The penny on the left has obviously been around for quite some time, right? It's helpe...
- Just.....Stop. For Just a Minute, Okay? on Nov 11, 2009 in
Lately, every time I look at one of my boys, I find myself thinking the same thing."Dude...slow down on the whole growing up thing, will ya?"I don't have babies anymore. I no longer have little boys. I'm not sure I've even got "kids" in the stereotyp...
- The One In Which I'm A Puddle Of Goo on Nov 9, 2009 in Important Questions In Life
When they're little, your children believe the sun rises and sets on mom's opinion. A good one will have them smiling for hours; a bad one will leave them in tears. As your children grow, they are so busy living and learning life that you become...
- Grace Is Not An Adjective Applied To Me on Nov 8, 2009 in Its All About Me Baby Oh My Freaking Heck
I used to be much more of a girly-girl. Really. You can ask anyone I went to high school with, and they'll tell you that I spent a ridiculous amount of time worrying about what my hair, nails, clothes, make-up, etc. looked like. I was (mostly) gracef...
- The Chapter of The Parenting Handbook They Left Out on Nov 6, 2009 in Photo Story Friday Heartbreaks of High School
Have you ever really, I mean REALLY thought about some of the movies and TV shows that you've always found the funniest? Not the ones that were necessarily approved by your parents when you were younger (although I could just about guarantee that whe...
