by suelarkinsweems | Sep 5, 2012 | On Family
Jedediah hopped on the bus Tuesday and started kindergarten. I did not stalk the bus and sneak through the bushes to snap pictures of him or to make sure he didn’t get lost on the way to his classroom. This either indicates I am exercising great restraint or general...
by suelarkinsweems | Aug 30, 2012 | On Military Life
Forgive me for being quiet this week. I am spent. We came through the typhoon fine. We started school. I braced myself next to the phone waiting for phone calls, the same way I had braced myself on the laptop waiting for Typhoon Bolaven to come. School started pretty...
by suelarkinsweems | Aug 27, 2012 | Mumblings and Misadventures
Three-fourths of my kids will load buses in less than twelve hours. The fourth will join them in one week when kindergarten begins. After a beautiful year of extremely messy homeschooling, I brace myself for the buses. While I sat in shock and denial today, they...
by suelarkinsweems | Aug 23, 2012 | Mumblings and Misadventures
This post is a complete mishmash of randomness– sorry. A couple weeks ago I described the outfit Mem wore to register for middle school. Can you picture it in your mind? I was able to get it out of my iPhone. See, I was NOT exaggerating. By the way, apparently...
by suelarkinsweems | Aug 22, 2012 | The Poetry
I have several dear, dear friends mourning heavy losses today—separate places, separate incidents, separate lives lost– but then we are never really so far apart, are we? Won’t you walk with me silently in prayer next to them? For HP, RC, and NM The world...
