So... the Impossible Son is now a freshman in high school ( Read more... )

So, last Friday night, this happened...


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So Mrs. Sees-Plots-Everywhere has made one of her patented moves sure to enrage every parent at the high school.

She had students pulled from class to be searched for drugs. And why did she have these students pulled from class to be searched for drugs ( Read more... )

This is what happens when the Impertinent Daughter gets bored halfway through an assignment to write a journal entry as if she were a colonist who had managed to survive a year in one of the New World colonies in the 1600's ( Read more... )

There are many challenges to being a parent, not the least of which are those moments when your child does or says something that somewhere in the back of your mind, there's a niggle telling you that you really should reprimand him or her, but the rest of you is so caught up in either hilarity or admiration that you... just... can't quite manage it ( Read more... )