So... had a parent-teacher conference with the Impossible Son's primary teacher today. It was interesting, and encouraging ( Read more... )

Yes, you were spared my math rants last school year because of the Incredible Mr. Knickerbocker™, the most Awesome Math Teacher in this district. He, unlike most of the other teachers here, actually makes it his business to find out what the kids that will be coming into his class are learning at their previous schools. And this is why he is ( Read more... )

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It was 100 F (37.7 C) at the school down the street from us today, and 101 F (38.3 C) at my son's school ( Read more... )

My plans for World Domination Through Cookies is proceeding nicely!!! Haha ( Read more... )

It's been a busy week. I got to argue with Dr. Endocrinologist about my thyroid medication. The dosage was lowered during my last visit because my levels were too high (????) and not even three days after the dosage change, my hair started falling out again, I was experiencing Personal Antarcticas again, my skin was drying out... oh, yeah, I was ( Read more... )

Soooooo... I had a conference today with the Impossible Son's main teacher, Mrs. G., and his math teacher, Ms. H ( 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... )

So yesterday, I picked the Impossible Son up from school as usual and when he climbed in the car, he said this week was "Stop-The-Bullying" week at his school, and in celebration of this, the kids in his class got to watch a film ( Read more... )

So, I'm in the middle of Jasper Fforde's Lost in a Good Book, and I come across this:

I bought a ticket, hurried to the check-in and spent ten minutes listening to a litany of pointless antiterrorist questions.

"I don't have a bag," I explained. She looked at me oddly, so I added, "Well, I did, but you lost it the last time I traveled. In fact ( Read more... )