http://www.reluctantgrandma.com Reluctant Grandma's Blog Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:43:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's been 25 years since I had to get a 6 year old dressed and ready for catching a school bus. I don't know how we did it! I figured that if the bus comes at 7:15, we need to walk out the door at 7:07 to give us plenty of ... http://www.reluctantgrandma.com/08/how-did-we-do-it/ School starts on August 14, so I want to get the list of school supplies and start picking up those things over the next two weeks. All the WalMarts have a cardboard display with photocopies of each school's name and grade specific school supplies that need to be bought and delivered ... http://www.reluctantgrandma.com/08/getting-ready-for-the-new-school-year/ We have dogs and treat them like part of the family. They stay indoors unless put on a leash and walked in our own yard. Once in a great while we take a couple of them to a park for a change of scenery. But the dogs are not allowed ... http://www.reluctantgrandma.com/07/dog-escapes/ The Fourth of July is always a big event for the city. There are hundreds of thousands of people downtown for the all day festival and parade, then about 9:00 pm the symphony starts playing patriotic songs and the Chamber of Commerce hosts a nice 20 minute fireworks display. But this ... http://www.reluctantgrandma.com/07/no-fireworks/ She doesn't seem the least bit concerned about teaching him to swim. He is already 6 and can't do anything but splash in the lake and the pool at their apartments. So I've signed him up for swim lessons at the YMCA and paid for them myself. If she can't ... http://www.reluctantgrandma.com/06/swim-lessons/ We had one tooth come out over the summer and then. . . . nothing. I was thinking it is getting awfully late to be losing teeth now - he is six and only one tooth out. Well, yesterday he was playing a video game and his hand went up to ... http://www.reluctantgrandma.com/01/hello-tooth-fairy/ This morning I was half asleep and trying to decide if I wanted to wake up or go back to sleep for an hour, when I heard a strange noise in the living room. Something had dropped and clattered to the floor. So I started to wake up and figure ... http://www.reluctantgrandma.com/11/surprise-for-grandma/ Two small pictures of our grandson in the first grade showed up last night. They aren't very good of him, but I don't think you get to choose a pose - you take what you can get. I wish she would take him to KMart's photo department and let them ... http://www.reluctantgrandma.com/11/school-pictures/ We were asked to hand deliver her paycheck since she can't get to the warehouse to pick it up. She needs the money and it wasn't out of the way, so we drove by her apartment to leave it with her. I'm surprised she didn't ask for a ride to ... http://www.reluctantgrandma.com/10/special-delivery/ Every car that we've let her have or drive she has trashed or wrecked. We finally took the Taurus back when she had her ass attack back in May. If she's going to be an ass then she doesn't get the free use of the car. So she went without ... http://www.reluctantgrandma.com/10/she-wrecked-the-car/