Even H is asking me to send A to boarding school.  Y is asking me to kill him.  Ya has learned that it doesn't help to give her opinion, so she doesn't usually mention she wishes him dead.  I wish I was superwoman and could better help him feel loved instead of feeling the need to hurt everyone.  I'm frustrated and disgusted with him too ( Read more... )

Saturday , Dec. 23, 2006

After all the mess the kids made with food and and wet clothing, I delegated tasks to each one and we got the house straitened up.   After which they cried excitedly, "Where's our prize!?  We did it!  Where's our prize?"  I pointed out that I hadn't promised them anything, but that didn't stop them from demanding candy and / ( Read more... )

Every day writing isn't happening, but I'll pretend it is.

Sunday:

H had a dentist appointment in the morning, so I took the opportunity of having her home alone to scrub her thoroughly. For some reason she is adverse to cleanliness. It might have something to do with being 8/9 years old.

I noticed her cringing when the dentist only picked up her ( Read more... )

I'm going to try journaling every day, no matter how boring. My expectations for myself aren't high, but I'll try ( Read more... )

I talked to my mom today. Dad has had a bone marrow biopsy, but won't see his doctor till Wednesday. They said in their last letter that he has low grade lymphoma. This is after the several letters before that he had been saying that every bug that came around, he'd caught. He'd had pneumonia and was generally weak. Mom says sometimes he feels good ( Read more... )

Today is my second brother's birthday. I suppose to be fair, I should call him too. I have trouble conversing with him over the phone. Well, that's true of my middle sister as well. But less difficult ( Read more... )

There's a little girl here who speaks English! Her family is visiting the couple who rent my step-son's house toward the end of our property.

She was looking for "the children." I described the way to my nephew's where they had all been invited to eat cake. She started going up the wrong set of steps (to a different step-daughter) and when I said ( Read more... )

I've been watching for the little envelope that shows I got mail "like a hawk." So now, within five minutes it's shown up four times telling me I have one new message. So I click and its not true! Argh ( Read more... )

Actually I tried for  a picture of the spider that scared A so much, but it didn't wait until I came back with the camera.  I was thinking maybe
( Read more... )

I walked home from group today. There was a marathon in town and when I went to the bus stop I could see that the traffic jam would make the bus route frustrating.

It was a lovely day. I went down a lower road, whereas I usually walk past my friend L's and visit her. She has gone a tad insane with pre- Pesach cleaning, and I made a conscious ( Read more... )