supervising from the couch: Unwilling subject

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Unwilling subject

Here are a few of the photos that I could have taken today:

The freshly fallen (and totally unwanted!) snow.
The stack of 625 fliers that I designed, copied and distributed at the school today.
The kids with their great-grandma after school.
The piles of laundry that didn't get done.

Much to the dismay of photo scrooge, I missed all of these opportunities and was forced by my commitment to the daily photo to take this shot:

We need some photographic evidence of the studying that's been such a huge part of our lives for the past couple of years!

3 comments:

Trisha said...: I am so impressed that you have taken a picture a day. Good job at stickin' to it! You need to inform Rob that 365 is a lot of pictures and he will be photographed wheter he's willing or not!! LOL; March 5, 2009 at 10:09 PM
Swimmingmom said...: Looks like he's having a grand old time!Just found your blog off or Rachel's. Can't wait to read more and keep up better. I miss all of you guys.; March 6, 2009 at 3:19 PM
Melissa said...: You know he'll just trade in studying hours for biking hours, right?; March 9, 2009 at 1:36 PM

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here's the story:

I was interviewed for a newpaper article about kids and sleep, and quoted as saying something like "when I'm tired, I feel like supervising from the couch." Ever since, it's been our catch phrase for slacker parenting. Ironically, I only had one child at the time and we were practically attached at the hip. Now that I have four older kids, they spend chunks of time playing without even the benefit of me watching from the couch. However, I do try to come running if it sounds like there might be blood. Somehow they have all thrived in spite of me.