http://mothering.suncoastscribe.com Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:39:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For some reason, I stressed out quite a bit when it came to choosing the right kindergarten for my daughter. I narrowed things down to four options: 1. The public school to which she would be assigned This is a frightening option. There are a lot of unknowns that fact into my daughter ... http://mothering.suncoastscribe.com/2008/04/14/choosing-the-right-kindergarten/ I got the letter today that says my daughter did not get picked in the lottery for the arts charter school here in the county. She is on the waiting list, but we all know how that goes. I have to say I am more disappointed than I thought I ... http://mothering.suncoastscribe.com/2008/02/21/arts-school-a-bust/ I have a gripe.  When I was a kid, my mom took me to birthday parties and dropped me off. Then, I would have cake and ice cream and games with my little friends and my mom would return to pick me up when the party was finished. I’ve noticed that nowadays ... http://mothering.suncoastscribe.com/2008/01/24/birthday-parties/ I’m a single mom and budgeting is very important to me. My daughter and I really enjoy eating out together, but if we do it too often, I really see the evidence in my checking account. So, what I do is try as often as possible to eat at restaurants that ... http://mothering.suncoastscribe.com/2008/01/21/kids-eat-free/ My daughter loves chocolate milk. One small consolation is that I use Ovaltine and it has more added vitamins than a typical powdered or syrup chocolate. Since she is showing no signs of giving up the preference of chocolate milk in the evenings over a nice glass of white milk, ... http://mothering.suncoastscribe.com/2008/01/17/sneaky-mom-healthy-additions/ My daughter is currently in pre-kindergarten, which is a program Florida now funds. You get a voucher and you can use it at a number of public and private school. I have her in a program at a Christian school right now and she loves it. Believe it or not, though, ... http://mothering.suncoastscribe.com/2008/01/14/the-stress-of-choosing-a-school/ I love maintaining my main blog over at Suncoastscribe.com, but as I took note of the types of things I was writing about I saw how often I wrote on parenting issues. This is inevitable. I am a mother and so much of my life comes back full circle to ... http://mothering.suncoastscribe.com/2008/01/08/hello-world/