I know a lot of you are experiencing hot, violent weather. Here in the Olympic Peninsula of Utah, we’ve got snow on the mountains and just enough sun to cast a shadow. This wet, green early summer reminds me of the last time we were not in a drought by June 1st. That would be ten years ago, when Dick and I had our wedding reception in my parents’ backyard and it started to rain just as we were leaving for a week of connubial bliss experimentation utter cluelessness.
Here’s Spot in the pool yard, not swimming.
Usually we save movies for when it’s too hot to be outside, but last Saturday we gave up on that and took the kids to Horton Hears a Who at the dollar theater. That’s Call Me Princess Ruby in the front and Miss I Like to Dress Like a Pioneer in the back. Girls are so blessedly anti-violence.
Horton Hears a Who is an awful movie, even worse than Bee Movie, and if I were a homeshooling mom, I’d be UP IN ARMS over the outrageous vilification of the “pouch-schooling” kangaroo mom, who is the source of everything evil and intolerant. Who writes these movies?
Our diet deteriorates drastically stays about the same during the summer. Susan is so helpful: here she has shredded the chicken nuggets into microscopic pieces for Spot.
In anticipation of hot days, we bought economy-size sunscreen, swim rings, diving toys, and sunglasses for all. Sally wears her sunglasses at night. I think Corey Hart’s a little old for her, which is good, because otherwise we’d be beating him off with a stick.
Spot got a little depressed about the weather and hit the bottle.
I’m praying for a warm front. I don’t know how much more sparkling apple cider Spot’s system can take.
Tags: corey hart, homeschooling, horton hears a who, movie review, summer
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First of all, “I Want to Be a Princess” in snow boots in the middle of June is a riot! I’m a huge subscriber to letting the kids express their creativity and independence through dress (which is why my girls are often roaming the grocery stores with their shoes on the wrong feet, wearing layers of silky pajamas). Second, I LOVE the little “wino” face – ha ha ha!
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Funny pictures! Spot looks totally caught in the act in that first one!
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The movie created a conflict in the homeschooling community. Because many in the community (not all! Don’t jump on me!) are pro-life, they liked the “a person’s a person, no matter how small.” But of course the kangaroo caricature infuriated all of us. You just can’t win.
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Karen — yes, the clothing fight is not one I want to fight, except it has to be relatively modest. Sometimes I feel like I spend all my time telling the girls to pull their skirt down so I can’t see their panties. THAT is the life, no?
Marianne — Yep. But I love the half-closed lids on the other one even more. She looks so dissipated.
Suburbancorrespondent — So, I guess I should be watching movies before they get to the dollar theater, if I want to be up on what’s being said about them. Weird — I didn’t even connect the “a person’s a person” thing to pro-life-ness. Shows that you see what you’ve been thinking about anyway.
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Oh, my goodness. Where to start? I’ll take connubial utter cluelessness and give you an amen. It was almost 15 years ago for us, and I have to say that it’s good things get better with time. THAT one in particular.
And I love the “I want to be a princess” and “I like to dress like a pioneer.” That totally sums up my daughter – only she likes to dress like a hoochie mama princess. I’m trying to temper that desire. Pioneer is a definitely a better look.
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My step-daughter is seven and she is still in that creative dressing and accessorizing phase. Right now it mostly has to do with weather. Since it was rainy yesterday she was dolled up in too small pants and shirt, poncho, rain poncho, rain boots, umbrella, mismatched gloves and some strange hat that I can’t figure out where it came from. She also had the assortment of bracelets and hair do-dads. I don’t think my little boy understands…as long as he’s wearing his “cool” pants, he’s fine, oh and anything with a dino on it.
I’m glad I didn’t have to see that movie.
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Wish I could send you some of our Texas heat. Cute pictures of your adorable kids. I have twins and I dressed them alike a lot when they were little. They are 16 year old girls now – now more matchy-matchy.
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