Whine, whine, whine. How quickly things change. I asked Luke how he was doing with this new math concept introduced in class that he had told me was impossible to understand. That's easy, Mom. I just didn't understand it at first.
Life is interesting when school starts.
My strategy with the boys is to help them find the good in the day and focus on that. And then I pray that God helps me to do the same. Mark Wingfield is managing editor of the Standard. Alison Wingfield is a freelance writer. The Wingfields moved to Texas from Louisville, Ky., where Mark had been editor of the Western Recorder, in which this column appeared weekly.