The Median Sib

I started a new blog tonight - The Reading Teacher. It will be the site for information on teaching reading, book recommendations, lesson plans and reading strategies. I’ll post my monthly reading newsletter there, too. There isn’t much there right now, and it’ll be Wednesday before I can put some time into it. But just give me a few days. I’ve got big plans for it!

I’ve pondered for awhile about what to do with family names since this blog is a public venue. One doesn’t want to provide too much personal information while still being able to write about activities and people freely. I’ve decided to call everyone by their nicknames. My daughter will be Stinkeroo and my son will be Scalawag - because those are the names that my father gave them when they were little. My oldest granddaughter is Sweet Stuff and my youngest is Sunshine. Problem solved! Now I just have to go back and change all the previous posts!

Got a phone call around 5:00 — part of the family was gathering at Stinkeroo’s home for dinner. PawPaw had prepared spaghetti sauce which he modestly declared “the best you’ve ever tasted” and wanted to share it with everyone. So I was put in charge of buying the bread on my way over to Stinkeroo’s home. I stopped by a convenience market thinking they’d have Italian bread. They didn’t. I bought hot dog buns, figuring I’d put garlic salt and butter on them and toast them, and they’d be just as good — and they were. When I drove up, the girls were in the backyard with PawPaw - playing pirates. They both ran to the fence to greet me. So sweet! Dinner was great. As a bonus, Scalawag showed up right before we left. He was picking up his two dogs that Stinkeroo had dog-sat over the weekend. So I had an unexpectedly enjoyable evening. Sweet Stuff showed off by reading several books for PawPaw and Scalawag who had not heard her read before. The girls had gone to yet another Pumpkin Patch on Sunday and bought more small pumpkins. So I was presented with two lovely pumpkins to take home with me — as were PawPaw and Scalawag. Unplanned evenings can be very enjoyable!