Karyn's Blog

Ryan walked in from the garage yesterday with four loosely bundled newspapers up to his chin, plopped them on the counter and started flipping through them. “Left-overs?”  I said.  He had just gotten back from delivering papers from his once-weekly paper route. “Yeah, and these have great coupons in them!” I love it when kids act like good consumers.  It’s a learned skill; kids don’t usually automatically scour the paper for coupons.  But when they are responsible for buying their own stuff…well…

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Ryan’s geometry book has been sitting on top of the dryer for about two weeks.  I finally got tired of looking at it and asked him about it this morning.  “Oh yeah, that’s our book,”  he said.  I was a little confused.  I don’t remember buying a geometry book. “They wouldn’t take it back because the edges are all frayed since it’s been in my backpack.”  Apparently the book is the first in a two part series and when the…

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