I'm home. AC would like to be home, but is stuck at the hospital for at least a few more days. Note that if AC were at home, she would likely be sleeping in my bed, so I'm selfishly glad she isn't. I slept in her nasty hospital bed last night, and my back still hurts. I don't normally have back problems ( Read more... )

It's not the time of night that's important, it's the quality of the silence. When the room is dark and the only sound the low hmmmm of HVAC and the fridge condenser, and Anne-Chloe's breathing ( Read more... )

A link to the flickr set of photos of our trip to the Enchantments.

New and Improved! 25 Best of the Enchantments 2014. The best, or whatever photos from the trip. A bit less overwhelming!

And this link should get you a trip reportI'm linking in this photo, and I have to find a way to add some more tags to it. Because when I went looking for ( Read more... )

Over a decade ago, when my brother was living with us, before Perry was born... ok, fine. In the late 90s, my brother saw a small article in our local rag. It was about the Northwest Railway Museum. We'd been there many a time, and dh, ever a train fan, loved the place. The article? Was a call for volunteers. Come learn to drive the train. Hello, ( Read more... )

Take 29, and the Rube Goldberg project worked ( Read more... )

AC has a major research paper due Friday. She's submitted two drafts, the paper is looking good, and I pity her poor teacher, since she's submitting a 3rd draft tomorrow. Last paper she got a 97: highest in the grade, and she intends to repeat that ( Read more... )

So I've whined about my kids and carbs before ( Read more... )

I've complained before about the history/language arts/math/science projects that are really art projects.

I hate those. Because dh and I don't have an artistic bone in our bodies, and neither do AC or Perry. Invariably those projects ended up in tears.

Perry had Yet Another One this week.

( The text of the assignment is below the cut )

[Loads of bad language]

Teenagers who refuse to listen, think they can do more than they should, and are planning on going backpacking in a week ( Read more... )

Went to dh's work campus today for an Event put on by the health insurance/benefits people. Sports clinics (boring!), cooking demos by major chefs (didn't bother), food -supposedly healthy, but, ummm... NOT- and a 5k ( Read more... )