daycare is closed this week ( Read more... )

I forget this sort of thing, every year. The child comes home on the last day of school with little packages marked 'for mom and dad' - things he has made in AHRT class - and i cry an embarassing amount in reality, only a small amount, but - yeah. still crying mother over child's art creations. *embarassed ( Read more... )

Again, a really good day. as much as this 'insisting on getting off internet and to bed by/at 10pm feels kind of annoying socially, i'm getting much better sleep and am able to get up earlier, so it's a definite win in the end. I have no plans for the day, which is even better! I'm hoping to actually write. i have a FABULOUS koan in mind for the ( Read more... )

today feels decidedly fail-abulous, for no real reason. There are some good things about the kidlet that have happened over the last while though ( Read more... )

I fell asleep for like, three hours. this is bad, because i'm probably going to have trouble getting to sleep again, and round and round and round. my shoulder is full of hatred today, and i have a doctor's appointment tomorrow, which is only annoying because between going there and being there and going back again it eats up about forty percent of ( Read more... )

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man wins lawsuit against polio vaccine maker after he was infected with polio through his daughter's poop. she'd had a live oral vaccine. talk about one in a million odds. more information here.(you just know there's going to be at least one fool out ( Read more... )

I'm sleepy and out of it (goddamn Lamactil; I'm also forgetting small things, falling asleep all the time - or maybe it's the idiotic robo-caller from Seattle Schools that woke us up at oh dark thirty to tell us they'd cancelled Sean's bus service, the bastards) (just for the day, not permanently, but because of the damnable snow/ice. we're trying ( Read more... )

Yesterday when I was at PT there was a ridiculously adorable service chihuahua (i have no idea what service the dog provided, although I was terribly curious). Her name was Boo Boo and she had all matching pink accessories, plus pink sweater, AND a SQUEAKY RUBBER CHICKEN with a PIRATE COSTUME. Her owner was sitting on the floor in the lobby area ( Read more... )

Sixteen days to go nanannananana i wanna be sedated ( Read more... )

okay, so the kid has a non-traditional report card system. Scale of 1 to 4; 4 is 'objective met' and 1 is 'little or no progress ( Read more... )