Tips and Tales from an Introverted Mom
by: Shell
Did hell freeze over? Because this never happens. Wait, that would mean that I think I live in hell. I don’t. Okay, but it’s still really rare for there to be any amount of snow here on the beaches of NC. My very first year here, 10 years ago, as an uninformed former Pennsylvanian, I woke up one morning to what we Yankees call “frost”
by: Shell
‘As a former teacher, let me tell you how many “teacher” type gifts I was given. Mugs, ornaments, random knickknacks. Oh, how cute. And useless. Yes, here is where I sound like an ungrateful brat. But, really, unless the teacher is a first-year newbie, they probably already have all of that stuff. I was gifted with all that stuff when I was a student teacher
by: Shell
After watching an episode of Phi.neas and Fe.rb, where the characters go into the future, Monkey was very interested in what people will look like when they are older. He thought the mom, in particular, looked really weird as an “old lady.” After discussing that in detail, he turned to me and said, “And this is what you are going to look like when you