I never meant to become one of THOSE mothers.  I feel like I've entered a world for which I was never very well-prepared ( Read more... )

I wasn’t much of a sports fan during or just after college.  In fact, I had cultivated the geeky bookworm's well-practiced disdain for any and all team sports, though I would watch figure skating in the winter and follow swimming and track and field events (and sometimes gymnastics) during Summer Olympics years.  The most I could muster was token ( Read more... )

Oops.

Been bad about posting.

Life is pretty good right now - ravenshrinkery and I are both settling into our new jobs, and we're adjusting to the facts that his is on the night shift and mine is salaried and non-overtime-eligible, though that hasn't been much of an issue YET ( Read more... )

My grandparents would not let my mother learn Polish ( Read more... )

I don't think it's exactly because they think I look like the egg-shaped pink marsupial Pokemon with curly hair that is pictured in the upper right corner of my icon. According to my younger daughter Tori, I am "goldish-white" because I am "SHINY Mama Blissey!"

My older daughter Alex, now known on LJ Idol as qween394, got really really into Pokemon a ( Read more... )

qween394 is her account.

When I was seven, I was the little girl who dragged her parents to church.

After all, it was a big deal. Seven was the "age of reason" - I'd made my first confession and learned that not going to church was a sin. I couldn't take myself there - church was five or six miles from my house and my wobbly bike-riding skills were not up to such a task ( Read more... )

[Warning: brief discussion of child abuse ( Read more... )

So. Hi ( Read more... )

It all started when I was at a special education advocacy workshop (of all things) and got a text message from ravenshrinkery telling me that Alex had been attacked by a classmate ( Read more... )