Comments on: on the verge of big-kid-dom http://www.racheldevine.com/blog/2010/02/26/big-kid-but-still-little/ american ex-pat mom photo blogging life and commercial kid photography Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:39:31 +0000 hourly 1 By: mariah http://www.racheldevine.com/blog/2010/02/26/big-kid-but-still-little/comment-page-1/#comment-7317 mariah Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:16:28 +0000 http://www.racheldevine.com/blog/?p=2067#comment-7317 rachel can you be my photogrpher thanks rachel can you be my photogrpher thanks

]]> By: Jennifer Chaney http://www.racheldevine.com/blog/2010/02/26/big-kid-but-still-little/comment-page-1/#comment-7147 Jennifer Chaney Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:59:25 +0000 http://www.racheldevine.com/blog/?p=2067#comment-7147 I forgot it's my daughters bday tomorrow. Yep. I'm awesome. Had to call the school to make sure they get something on the books to do for her. My husband is out right now buying cookies for her class. I was so focused on the bday party that I actually forgot the "day." I'm glad I found this post. I do it all the time. AND I have four calendars. Wait... five. So happy to see I'm in good company! I forgot it's my daughters bday tomorrow. Yep. I'm awesome. Had to call the school to make sure they get something on the books to do for her. My husband is out right now buying cookies for her class. I was so focused on the bday party that I actually forgot the "day." I'm glad I found this post. I do it all the time. AND I have four calendars. Wait… five. So happy to see I'm in good company!

]]> By: Kristina http://www.racheldevine.com/blog/2010/02/26/big-kid-but-still-little/comment-page-1/#comment-7017 Kristina Sun, 28 Feb 2010 02:02:43 +0000 http://www.racheldevine.com/blog/?p=2067#comment-7017 Aww, I feel your pain. It is just shell shock - it will get better. We were similarly overwhelmed by the mountain of requirements and deluge of papers when C started school. We missed things on a regular basis. But then, we got into the rhythm of things. One thing I can't rave enough about is Google calendars. I now run one for the entire school. As snippets of paper arrive, I add the info in them to the calendar, and then both hubby and I (and the rest of the school) can see it. Congratulations on the book contract! Aww, I feel your pain. It is just shell shock – it will get better. We were similarly overwhelmed by the mountain of requirements and deluge of papers when C started school. We missed things on a regular basis. But then, we got into the rhythm of things. One thing I can't rave enough about is Google calendars. I now run one for the entire school. As snippets of paper arrive, I add the info in them to the calendar, and then both hubby and I (and the rest of the school) can see it.

Congratulations on the book contract!

]]> By: Reagan Mon http://www.racheldevine.com/blog/2010/02/26/big-kid-but-still-little/comment-page-1/#comment-7014 Reagan Mon Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:15:00 +0000 http://www.racheldevine.com/blog/?p=2067#comment-7014 hey rachel! love this pic of gemma! i was wondering if i could save it to my PC? i think shes the cutest kid ever. lol you inspire me, with your photography. its beautiful. lol im trying to convince my mom to buy me a nice camera, and move to melborne lol. well anyway, thanks for your time! im a huge fan!!!!!!!! hey rachel! love this pic of gemma! i was wondering if i could save it to my PC? i think shes the cutest kid ever. lol you inspire me, with your photography. its beautiful. lol im trying to convince my mom to buy me a nice camera, and move to melborne lol. well anyway, thanks for your time! im a huge fan!!!!!!!!

]]> By: Jill http://www.racheldevine.com/blog/2010/02/26/big-kid-but-still-little/comment-page-1/#comment-6999 Jill Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:25:00 +0000 http://www.racheldevine.com/blog/?p=2067#comment-6999 Ummm... this is normal. An actual thing that I have listed in my outlook calendar for reminders is to make a cup of coffee which I have set so I have a cup of coffee with me when I leave for a meeting. I've also had to set outlook to remind me to do things like eat lunch and mail a letter. If I don't put in as a reminder it does.not.get.done. I haven't had to set a reminder to go the bathroom but I don't doubt it could happen sometime. Ummm… this is normal. An actual thing that I have listed in my outlook calendar for reminders is to make a cup of coffee which I have set so I have a cup of coffee with me when I leave for a meeting. I've also had to set outlook to remind me to do things like eat lunch and mail a letter. If I don't put in as a reminder it does.not.get.done. I haven't had to set a reminder to go the bathroom but I don't doubt it could happen sometime.

]]> By: sesameellis http://www.racheldevine.com/blog/2010/02/26/big-kid-but-still-little/comment-page-1/#comment-6978 sesameellis Sat, 27 Feb 2010 10:36:03 +0000 http://www.racheldevine.com/blog/?p=2067#comment-6978 Sadly, I have a Blackberry on a necklace...I am hopeless. I also have the MomAgenda book. It was just a total mom fail. I did not make a big deal about it...it just broke my heart. Sadly, I have a Blackberry on a necklace…I am hopeless. I also have the MomAgenda book. It was just a total mom fail. I did not make a big deal about it…it just broke my heart.

]]> By: *rowe* http://www.racheldevine.com/blog/2010/02/26/big-kid-but-still-little/comment-page-1/#comment-6984 *rowe* Sat, 27 Feb 2010 10:07:22 +0000 http://www.racheldevine.com/blog/?p=2067#comment-6984 we all forget at times... how sweet of gemma to say it was ok! this will make you feel better - i sent audrey to school in the wrong tshirt! shes at a steiner school and they where a different colour for each day of the week and she comes out in yellow when its red day... now an attentive mum who wasnt sleep deprived, would have sent he back to her room to change but clearly im not that mumma... everyday i had been checking the paper to see what she should wear but she seemed so assured! i didnt realise till after she had left the house... her teacher was amazing about it and made her feel at ease so she in turn came home and settled my uneasy guilt. isnt it amazing that they take things so well and accept that we are human and make mistakes? in all fairness to me... we had just sold our house in sydney, moved interstate and started school the next week. she hadnt even been there a full 2 weeks. rowe x we all forget at times… how sweet of gemma to say it was ok!

this will make you feel better – i sent audrey to school in the wrong tshirt! shes at a steiner school and they where a different colour for each day of the week and she comes out in yellow when its red day… now an attentive mum who wasnt sleep deprived, would have sent he back to her room to change but clearly im not that mumma… everyday i had been checking the paper to see what she should wear but she seemed so assured! i didnt realise till after she had left the house…

her teacher was amazing about it and made her feel at ease so she in turn came home and settled my uneasy guilt. isnt it amazing that they take things so well and accept that we are human and make mistakes? in all fairness to me… we had just sold our house in sydney, moved interstate and started school the next week. she hadnt even been there a full 2 weeks.

rowe x

]]> By: julia http://www.racheldevine.com/blog/2010/02/26/big-kid-but-still-little/comment-page-1/#comment-6969 julia Sat, 27 Feb 2010 06:14:18 +0000 http://www.racheldevine.com/blog/?p=2067#comment-6969 my daughter needed a shower curtain last Friday (some project involving making something that looked like a stained glass window...whatever). I mumbled expletives all the way there...I only had 2 1/2 hours to myself and I spent it doing that. I asked her after she got home...so did you notice I brought you that shower curtain....she said she got it but they didn't need it....that's being a mom..sometimes you score and sometimes you mess up and sometimes you waste a good Friday morning. my daughter needed a shower curtain last Friday (some project involving making something that looked like a stained glass window…whatever). I mumbled expletives all the way there…I only had 2 1/2 hours to myself and I spent it doing that. I asked her after she got home…so did you notice I brought you that shower curtain….she said she got it but they didn't need it….that's being a mom..sometimes you score and sometimes you mess up and sometimes you waste a good Friday morning.

]]> By: sesameellis http://www.racheldevine.com/blog/2010/02/26/big-kid-but-still-little/comment-page-1/#comment-6982 sesameellis Sat, 27 Feb 2010 06:12:53 +0000 http://www.racheldevine.com/blog/?p=2067#comment-6982 link to the momAgenda in the square ads on the side of my blog. i LOVE mine...if I just remember to look at it often. link to the momAgenda in the square ads on the side of my blog. i LOVE mine…if I just remember to look at it often.

]]> By: Kim K. http://www.racheldevine.com/blog/2010/02/26/big-kid-but-still-little/comment-page-1/#comment-6980 Kim K. Sat, 27 Feb 2010 05:52:28 +0000 http://www.racheldevine.com/blog/?p=2067#comment-6980 ohh-never heard of the mom agenda. A glance at my calendar on my iphone would make one think I was very busy with all the appts it lists everyday-because i add EVERYTHING to my calendar as an all day event that repeats until i delete AND set 2 reminder alarms until complete. Needless to say-i've been there. And it is hard to look into those big eyes...hopefully Gemma's graceful response eased your heartache a little. Thanks for sharing your "failures" along with all your greatness. ohh-never heard of the mom agenda. A glance at my calendar on my iphone would make one think I was very busy with all the appts it lists everyday-because i add EVERYTHING to my calendar as an all day event that repeats until i delete AND set 2 reminder alarms until complete. Needless to say-i've been there. And it is hard to look into those big eyes…hopefully Gemma's graceful response eased your heartache a little.

Thanks for sharing your "failures" along with all your greatness.

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