Rob is home now! ( Update here, with minor surgical references )

tl;dr: lots of senior-related activities this week ( Read more... )

There's never that much to report, really. Kids go to school, I hound Two about doing his PT correctly and his math accurately (he understands the concepts for both those things. It's the quality that needs work), I go to the store once a week and smaller errands occasionally, and I started sewing on the quilt remake I'm doing for my SIL's bday ( ( Read more... )

Got word today that Two's officially been accepted into the half-day votech culinary arts program for next year, should he choose to do it. Good to have choices.

Thanks to spiffikins, I got to do two meme-questionaires instead of something responsible. *g ( Read more... )

Gacked from meathiel:

1. What is the color of your toothbrush?
Bright pink and white. (My dentist picked it.)

2. Name someone who made you smile today.
Two - he gave himself his T shot for the first time!

( 48 more scintillating questions under here )

And on the second day of the school year:

MiniPlu got ( stressed again )

I am really sorry not to have given any actual update of any real value in weeks. It always just felt like such a big task, late at night when I was tired and not able to put words together in meaningful sentences. But the longer I go, the bigger the task gets, so ... I'm going to do my best to sum up what's been going on:

( End of school year - finals/grades )

It's always reassuring to discover (in the course of pointing out corrections to his Romeo and Juliet essay) that your 15-year-old son - who, admittedly, has reading/writing difficulties - cannot associate irregular verbs with their past-tense variations. He frequently mixes past and present freely, but you cannot simply tell him he needs to pick ( Read more... )

To start: I was tagged by hamsterwoman to do the Seven Book Covers thing, where you post one the cover of one favorite book per day, without any commentary or explanation. I have waaaaaayyy more than seven favorite books, so this is going to be tough for me, but we'll start with an easy one:


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Setting: The kitchen.
Time: 5:20pm.
Situation: I'm making dinner.

MiniPlu: Mom, have you heard of a story called Cry-no Burgo?
Me: ...
Me: Do you mean Cyrano de Bergerac?
MiniPlu: Yeah, that one.
Me: *bursts into uncontrollable giggles*

I know, I'm not winning any mommy points for laughing in my daughter's face, but seriously: Cryno Burgo(On ( Read more... )