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First Grade

September 4, 2013 by Ashley Hackshaw

I can’t believe I have a first grader. Yesterday was Boo’s first day of first grade. This morning we had this conversation:

Boo: Can you drop me off in the carpool line like the big kids?
Me: Ok. But am I allowed to come in for morning assembly?
Boo: Only if you sneak in the back so it doesn’t look like you walked me in.

Me: What was the most exciting part of the day?
Boo: Eating lunch with the big kids.
Me: Anything else?
Boo: Being able to go to the big hall bathroom.

Ok wow. She’s officially a big girl.

Now I just have to keep up with recording all of the daily happenings in our little diary we keep in the car like last year.

Constellations and Star Walking

September 2, 2013 by Ashley Hackshaw

I couldn’t sleep at all last night. Maybe too much caffeine at dinner. It was super dark as I lay there and I was trying to come up with a constellation idea for all the technology in our master bedroom.

The only constellations that really make sense to me are the dippers (dipping spoons as Boo calls them) and the snake (hydra)…..but when I look up at the sky I see thousands of dipping spoons and hydras. I don’t know how they came up with all those other pictures from the stars. So it makes sense that the lights in my room could make up a donut, right?

Boo loves using the Star Walk app at night……holding it up to the sky and registering where the stars are. Your smartphone or iPad knows exactly where you are and holding it up to the sky: what’s on your screen is what’s actually in the sky. It’s pretty much the coolest app we’ve ever purchased:

Tons of planet information:

Constellation info:

Even satellites and space stations:

Hope you are having a great Labor Day!

A Short Guide to a Happy Marriage (The Download)

August 30, 2013 by Ashley Hackshaw

I’m the first to admit that I’m not the easiest person to live with. I’m pretty strong willed and opinionated. I go off in a million directions….a million times a day. One day I decide to simplify and give almost everything away….and the next day I’m calling Mr. LBB to pick up random “treasure” I found on the side of the road. I’ll take over the guest bedroom with my “yard sale” pile rising to the ceiling….then an eBay box will arrive that same day with 5,000 buttons. I cook the same thing almost every night regardless of requests. I’ll decide we watch too much TV one week and the next I’ll watch 23 movies. Our master bed is covered in 14 books at any given time…..along with a few goldfish, G-2 gel pens, clean laundry etc….it’s amazing that hubby can find room to sleep in all of that. I sabotage the Netflix queue and fill it with random documentaries and subtitled films. I don’t think I could live with me….but somehow Mr. LBB puts up with all of that.

Recently he said: Do you think you could make sure to turn off the shower light in the morning? It usually stays on all day. So I know that really bothers him. And I go to extreme efforts to make sure I turn that light off…..OCD checking a few times a day. Because….wow….that’s easy.

No one has a perfect marriage…and we all have annoying quirks and habits that probably drive our other half crazy. I guess the best we can do is to make up for those in other ways, right?

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