I’m sitting on the porch this morning enjoying the cooler breeze that Hurricane Irene brings.\u00a0 The house is quiet as the girls and Mel recover from a week of early mornings.\u00a0 The weather is so odd.\u00a0 It was simply gorgeous last night with a Pinkalicious sky.\u00a0 In fact, Mary Clare was in her black kitty costume singing at the top of her lungs “PINK-A-LIIIIIIIIIICIOUS” on the front porch for quite a while.\u00a0 Then it became very cool and breezy.<\/p>\n
Same this morning.\u00a0 The sun peeked in my window early, waking me.\u00a0 As I grabbed my coffee and headed to the front porch, it became dark and cloudy.\u00a0 The cooler wind is nice, but I can’t help but feel for everyone north of us.\u00a0 I vividly remember Hurricane Hugo and it’s a scary, destructive force.<\/p>\n
I love mornings.\u00a0 It gives me time to reflect.\u00a0 (And desperately needed quiet time alone-even if it is only 20 minutes.)\u00a0 I’m so proud of my girls.\u00a0 Here are a few comments I’ve received this week:<\/p>\n
“Mary Clare is a pleaser.\u00a0 She has an amazing imagination and is our class teenager.” Ms. Chure, Mary Clare’s 4K teacher<\/p>\n
“McCanless is so well-rounded. Whatever you are doing, keep doing it.” -Ms. Vonne, McCanless’ first grade teacher<\/p>\n
“McCanless is a gem. She has a great sense of humor.\u00a0 She’s that child that ‘gets it.’\u00a0 I always have one in every class.\u00a0 She’s the one I can make eye contact with and we laugh together about something that goes over the other kids’ heads.” -Ms. Jenner, McCanless’s 2nd grade teacher<\/p>\n
I’m just like every other mom out there.\u00a0 I think my children are amazing and wonderful and completely perfect.\u00a0 (Most of the time, that is.) But, I do warn their teachers every year how, ahem,<\/em> “Mel” they can be and how NOT perfect they truly are, like both of us<\/em>.\u00a0 (wink, wink)\u00a0 It’s fun to hear compliments though, despite the fact that Mary Clare has only been one day (in seven) without her “Doggie” going in the “Dog House” at school.<\/p>\n So, she gets in trouble and still finds time to be creative and imaginative!\u00a0 Impressive, in my book.<\/p>\n I love my girls dearly, with their each and every dramatic loud scream, eye-roll, quirky, temper-tantrum, song at the top of their lungs, strong-willed, glittered costume dancing, painting, passionate and sassy little selves!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m sitting on the porch this morning enjoying the cooler breeze that Hurricane Irene brings.\u00a0 The house is quiet as the girls and Mel recover from a week of early mornings.\u00a0 The weather is so odd.\u00a0 It was simply gorgeous last night with a Pinkalicious sky.\u00a0 In fact, Mary Clare was in her black kitty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6477"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6489,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6477\/revisions\/6489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}