Okay...
so the three of us were at Home Depot yesterday...(myself, husband, and 6 year old son) buying gardening "stuff"...you know...soil, chemicals, tools....the fun, dirty stuff.
As my son and I wait just outside of the gardening center for my husband to pull the truck around...(yes...we are semi- yuppies with 8 acres and a pick up truck alongside our Volkswagen Jetta...) I notice a woman, by herself, loading large bags of mulch and sections of concrete garden borders into her pick up truck. I decide it is the neighborly thing to do to help her load up...and this will also be a good place for my husband to pull in to get our dirt goods loaded up.
So...while my motives are two-fold...
my 6 year old jumps in and decides he is going to help as well!
I would like to think we have pounded good manners into him for the past 6 years and so perhaps it is kicking in...good for me...when he goes WAY past good manners and proceeds to tell this nice lady that "my mama always taught me that if I see someone who needs help, I should help them". I almost cried right there in front of the Home Depot!
She smiled at him sweetly and thanked us both!
I could not have been prouder!
Monday, June 4, 2007
Sunday, June 3, 2007
Summer Vacation
Wow!
My son just finished his first year of formal school....the amazing kindergarten!
When I was in kindergarten...(don't ask ), it was a place to go to give my mom a 1/2 day break from her precocious angel, and for us to learn all the wonderful ways to use paste...artwork, snack, hair gel...you know!
Now...by the time my son "graduated" kindergarten...he was supposed to be able to read...on some level...and he did!
I was amazed and astounded throughout the year as we practiced "reading" that he really WAS reading!
It has been a wonderful thing to see another world open up to him...the world of words and stories! For him to get a hint at the idea that he can go ANYWHERE by reading!
And now in summer vacation....
It is my job to make sure he continues on this wonderful adventure he has begun in kindergarten (and before that...really)...so he can continue his progress in learning and...
NOT be behind when he enters 1st Grade! (Ha!)
My son just finished his first year of formal school....the amazing kindergarten!
When I was in kindergarten...(don't ask ), it was a place to go to give my mom a 1/2 day break from her precocious angel, and for us to learn all the wonderful ways to use paste...artwork, snack, hair gel...you know!
Now...by the time my son "graduated" kindergarten...he was supposed to be able to read...on some level...and he did!
I was amazed and astounded throughout the year as we practiced "reading" that he really WAS reading!
It has been a wonderful thing to see another world open up to him...the world of words and stories! For him to get a hint at the idea that he can go ANYWHERE by reading!
And now in summer vacation....
It is my job to make sure he continues on this wonderful adventure he has begun in kindergarten (and before that...really)...so he can continue his progress in learning and...
NOT be behind when he enters 1st Grade! (Ha!)
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