Not the greatest of days with my nine year old, and it’s SO good to hear that I am not alone in my back-and-forth relationship with him.

And to know we are not alone in our ‘lick you on the face just to make you laugh and lighten a situation’ moments!

I am a recent convert to your site…and may I say that you are now highlighted in my Favourite list and I check in with you all the time – you always seem to just get it. Thank you.

And the power of a husband highlighting HIS relationship with you as separate from the kids – it cannot be underestimated in raising great kids.

I thought I would escape the moodiness because I have a boy…Hah! I was so kidding myself.

Actually, most days the Bunker Monkey is his usual sunny self, but then there’s days like today, when he doesn’t want to go to school, and stays in the hall until one of his teachers pulls him into the classroom (sigh). I know it’s going to be a rough day when even promises of his Aunt picking him up from school don’t cheer him up (and when mention of him seeing his favorite cousin don’t do the job either? Then I start to worry).

But just think, in a few short years you will be sending Chickie off to college, and looking back fondly on this time (I think that’s called amnesia :)).

And thank you, because this post brought back memories of me and my mom, joking with one another over who knows what. A look, a repeated phrase, and we would be in giggles for hours, while no one else understood what was so funny… as my mom was begging for me to stop and we’d just do it all over again.