Kate Dyer-Seeley  

So forget my last post.  Trips to Europe be damned!  Luke’s back-to-school tale will now be “I caught a fish THIS big!”  And, he even has picture proof.  But on to other news…my blog is just one of many things that has sat neglected while enjoying this near-perfect Pacific Northwest summer.  It’s been an unusual summer in [...]

When we told people we planned to travel to Europe with Luke this summer, we received more than a few raised eyebrows and comments like, “But you’re not taking him to the big cities like Rome right?”  Well of course!  We had no intention of traveling halfway around the world and missing out on Sistine [...]

In celebration of Father’s Day Luke wanted to rise early and make Gordy breakfast in bed.  It should be noted here, that Luke would much prefer to have breakfast in bed daily.  It should also be noted that any foray into breakfast in bed begins Luke shouting up the stairs, “Dad! Dad! Don’t get out [...]

We dodged a bullet in the Seeley household last week, well at least I did, I’m not sure the boys would agree with me.  Our pet total to date stands as follows:  two dogs, one cat, two frogs, a fish, a couple of snails, and a hamster prone to escaping his cage (aptly named Houdini.)  [...]

It’s like the old Sesame Street song, “One of these things is not like the other.”  Somehow Luke ended up decorating Easter cookies last week in his camouflage wife-beater while jamming to Johnny Cash.  As he sang with a six-year-old twang, “I fell in to a burnin’ ring of fire” I handed him pink sprinkles [...]

So we are not in the norm these days when it comes to kid birthday parties.  I realized this a few years back in preschool when Luke began receiving invitations to elaborate parties where the entire class attended with parents in tow.  For me, the experience wasn’t enjoyable. We ended up attending parties with hovering parents, [...]

Luke couldn’t love school or Maestra Bainter more.  Spending five minutes in his classroom is jaw-dropping.  The entire class is rattling off Spanish phrases, rolling they’re “R’s” and laughing in delight when the wrong transition song is accidentally played (in Spanish of course).  This is the way we should all learn language.  It’s natural, innate.  [...]

There’s an old song my mom used to sing to us as our Bluebird troop leader.  It went something like, “Make new friends, but keep the old.  Some are silver and the other gold.”  Little did I know it as a ponytail-clad first grader, but that simple song with its easy rhythm is a proverb [...]

Technology love it or hate it, this one just might buy us another few years of believing…a direct message from Santa with an insider’s view of the North Pole.  Need I say more?  Happy Holidays 2009 style!  Portable North Pole (PNP). 

There are many things I love about Luke’s budding Spanish.  I particularly enjoy listening to him babble in a string of Spanish syllables in the tub each night.  He won’t perform on command, and who can blame him?  But, when he thinks we’re not listening his little “r’s” really roll.  More than anything I appreciate that his [...]