Blogs Posts on "Lil' Satchmo"

Stretching His Wings by Live From The Wang of America on Nov 21, 2009My oldest child is not at home. He is spending the night at a friend's house tonight.It is the first time he has done such a thing.He's not here telling me about various inconsistencies in the Star Wars the Clone Wars vehicles episode to episode. He'...

The Next Generation of KISS Fans by Live From The Wang of America on Nov 2, 2009My oldest boy says to me, as we're loading up to head downtown ATL,"Can we listen to some KISS?"To which I say "Ummm - yes - why?""Because," he says,"I wanna listen to something that rocks."Okay then.Clearly his current social circle likes to ROCK.

Unrepentantly Spoiling Him by Live From The Wang of America on Oct 18, 2009My oldest boy turned 7 at the end of September. For the past few years, due to a double downsizing and the economy, we haven't been able to give him a proper birthday party. A proper yuppie-white-suburban birthday party. For his first four years, his...

Suddenly He's Seven by Live From The Wang of America on Sep 30, 2009I'm not exactly sure when it happened. Somewhere between zero and yesterday - my boy turned seven.How did this happen? I suppose my own mother wonders the same thing, how is her little girl 40 already? And how old, in turn, are the two of US suddenly...

Pumpkin Update by Live From The Wang of America on Sep 9, 2009So while I was laid up in the bed, the boy and his Dad planted the pumpkins. My poor husband had to dig up the hard Georgia clay with a spade because we don't have a rototiller.Despite his usual dislike of bugginess, the big boy had a pretty good tim...

So The Boy Brings Home These Orange Seeds.... by Live From The Wang of America on Aug 23, 2009No lie. He had an orange for lunch and pulled the seeds out and wrapped them in a napkin and put them in his pocket. Since we have so much room, so much YARD here - he wants to plant them.There is a part of me (the big lazy part) that goes SIGH OH GO...

Education Begin Again by Live From The Wang of America on Aug 10, 2009We go back to school tomorrow. I'd say I'm doing a dance of joy or that I'm weeping but I'm doing neither. I'm happy FOR them, they all three love school. I think only stay at home Mom's do the "dance of joy" because then they get to have kid free da...

We Get Our Physics Lessons from James Bond by Live From The Wang of America on Jul 4, 2009Here is the conversation:The Boy:When that giant window breaks in Empire Strikes Back - why did Luke and all that stuff fly out? Were there giant fans?Me: Ummm, no (shuffles to fill coffee) ummmm.......it was a pressurized room. It's called pressure...

It's Cool When They Listen by Live From The Wang of America on Jun 27, 2009My oldest boy is some strange combination of very little boy and very wise philosopher that often blows my mind. He's always been such a little sponge to all the information around him but suddenly, all these concepts and ideas are swelling into new...

They Love Him Too by Live From The Wang of America on Mar 15, 2009For 19 months only he was solitary, an individual child in a house of adults. But after the 19th month - he was just the oldest of three. He has spent the best part of his six years helping to take care of the littler ones, the ones who needed more h...