Rock Of Life

Last night we took the kids to a Rick Springfield concert.  I've been a fan since I was as old as my kids are now.  One of the highlights for me was the song "Rock Of Life" which came out when I was in High School.  I enjoyed it then, but like many things, I enjoy it more now that I get it.  It was written after the birth of his first child and talks about the emotional response, both good and bad, to that life changing event.  Sometimes I still feel like I'm waiting for the boy to leave and the man to enter in my own fatherhood journey.  (and the video is cool too....lots of stuff blowing up)


Well I pick up my guitar, (I tune up)
I look in the mirror 
It's like a stranger in my hand (the baby is crying) 
There comes a time when the boy must leave (get up) 
And the man has to enter 
For the soul to understand (all of the changes) 
As if it ain't hard enough this life I'm living in 
I was caught with my guard down 
When the world came knocking

I feel the big beat, the Rock Of Life 
Big beat talk to me 
I feel the back beat, the Rock Of Life
Waking up blind with the house on fire

Is it something in my head (look up) 
Or the time of season 
Or the little boy in my hands (must be a reason) 
Yeah, there's new meaning in my life (a shake-up) 
But there's pain and confusion 
And I'm trying to understand (all of the changes) 
I've been cut so deep but I can't make it bleed 
I was caught with my head in the sand 
When the world came knocking

I feel the big beat, the Rock Of Life 
Big beat talk to me 
I feel the back beat, the Rock Of Life


It ain't no perfect life 
This one I'm living in 
And I was caught with my guard down 
When the world came knocking

I feel the big beat, the Rock Of Life 
Big beat talk to me 
I feel the back beat, the Rock Of Life

My daughter loves school

I am so grateful that my daughter loves school.  She is in 5th grade now, and her love for school is just as great now as those first few days of pre-k when all they did was build with blocks and color pictures.  If it was up to here, school would go 350 days a year (she does enjoy an occasional sleep in and wear PJs all day at home).

Last night these little math cards popped up all over the house.  She is using them as a way to learn the multiplication facts she still has trouble with.  Her rule is that she can't use the item next to the card until she answers the problem.

And her enthusiasm is contagious.  My son, who would rather go to school about 15 days a year, just to check in with his friends, saw what she had done and asked if he could do it too!

She is awesome!  Thank you to all of her AWESOME TEACHERS, past and present, for nurturing her love for school!

Curious George and the School Bus

School has started, and my hours at Target have not picked up yet, so I'm left with more free time.  I think I need to get out more...I just spent a good chunk of my morning playing with Curious George on the PBS kids website.

Click here if you want to help the animals in the zoo.


My daughter rides the bus to school for the first time this year.  She was worried all summer about it and thought it would be scary.  After one day she was over that fear.  But I'm finding I don't like it so much.  I have this weird disconnected feeling that she goes off to some unseen school and does mysterious things.  Even though I've seen her class room and met her teacher and I know where her locker is.....it's just kind of an unexpected weird feeling not dropping her off at school every day.