Living with Grace

Friendship Bracelets

noreply@blogger.com (Grace's Mom) — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:53:00 +0000

Look what came in the mail Saturday! FOUR Friendship Bracelets! I can't decide if you were more excited about the actual bracelets or that Jessie sent you a package. The package could have just been air but the fact that it was sent by Jess made it priceless. After heartbreaking (more for me than you) day when friendship bracelets were made and yours was not wanted and you were not given this token of *lasting* friendship Jessie came to the rescue. It is amazing that this 14 year old...

Last Day of First Grade!!

noreply@blogger.com (Grace's Mom) — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:15:00 +0000

You did it!!! You are going to be a second grader. Isn't this amazing? The year went by so fast. I hope you have a ton of kids sign your t-shirt today and I promise I will have it framed by the end of summer. (hopefully this summer) Last week was pretty rough but I think you handled yourself beautifully. Your friends diappointed you but you were able to forgive. That makes you better at forgiveness then me. I didn't get your teacher an end of year gift for you to give her today. This way she...

When Reality Bites (First Graders are Fickle)

noreply@blogger.com (Grace's Mom) — Fri, 23 May 2008 21:30:00 +0000

A part of me doesn't want to write down the memory of yesterday and yet the other part of me thinks it is important and a life lesson. My stomach still has a knot in it and if I think about it too long I tear up. But you? You held yourself together. You held your tears until we pulled into the safety of the garage. How long was that? Six hours? Amazing and strong but so heartbreaking for me to hear. Yesterday was Friendship Bracelet Day. All week the first grade classes have done...

Hip Hop, It brings families together.

noreply@blogger.com (Grace's Mom) — Mon, 19 May 2008 20:29:00 +0000

You did GREAT!! You did your very best and it showed. Take away a full length mirror and boy oh boy you are in the zone. I had no idea that they would turn off the lights and you would glow in the dark. Thank goodness you don't wear a bra yet. Take it from me black lights are not your friend if your top is thin and you are under the age sixteen. (That will eventually change, but you will have to wait until you are in Mexico at Senor Frogs) What a great time you had performing on stage. But I...

Hip Hop Connection

noreply@blogger.com (Grace's Mom) — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:15:00 +0000

This weekend is your Hip Hop dance recital. It is your first real live performance. At least a performance on a stage in front of complete strangers, your family has sat through many many impromptu performances. You have been practicing this Hip Hop routine for months to the music and lyrics of Rhianna's Umbrella song. I feel anxious. Anxious for many reasons. One, because you have not paid much attention in class and prefer to look in the floor to ceiling wall to wall mirror instead of...

Sharing a Bed

noreply@blogger.com (Grace's Mom) — Thu, 15 May 2008 21:37:00 +0000

There have been many changes in your life and sometimes you roll with those changes and other times the fear brings chaos and erratic emotions that try my tiny string of patience. It took some time for you to sleep alone in your own bed. The light had to be just right the TV set to the correct sleep timer number. How you knew a half an hour was 30 minutes and caught me setting it for just 20. The crying, the negotiating, the hugging my neck for dear life, and finally my flash point of anger for...