Ritalin is the stuff of the gods, and babies don't need toys. Or sleep, apparently.

This morning stickybear was grumpy because we wouldn't let him go wait for the bus in the pouring rain.

Eight-year-olds are odd creatures.

Said by stickybear, last night: "Tomato Soup-at-Hand is the official therapy snack! You should go to therapy more often, Quinn."

(Backstory: I go to therapy every two weeks or so. Infrequently, ishaa accompanies me. This involves leaving the bear in the waiting room with homework, a snack, and a cell phone to call us.)

I checked bear's pockets at bedtime tonight (mostly because when he flung them across the room toward the laundry pile things spiraled out) and found the following items:

• Several crumpled up pieces of paper
  
• A bent out of shape paperclip; reportedly a "gift from his teacher"
  
• A red bead
  
• A washer
  
• A wrapper of unknown origin
  
• A small metal ball
  
• Several ( Read more... )

Posted at wickedstepmama for the first time in forever! This dual blogs thing is kind of difficult for a professional procrastinator with ADHD like myself. Comment though, please! I feel embarrassed for WSM.

Hey, nagirrebailed? You know who I'm going to look like in a few years? Sr. O'Brien.

Yea, and she did declare that Wednesday was a day for questions.

Question 1. Lately--over the past couple years--I have begun having trouble with my hands falling asleep when I sleep. It started out innocent--I would wake up in the middle of the night to find a hand painfully asleep due to my sleeping position. While at first it was completely ( Read more... )

On the way home from the Y today stickybear asked ishaa why someone would have a baby if they didn't want it. ishaa replied that sometimes people don't intend to have babies, and that he would give him a book, Where Did I Come From, when they got home. (This is the book that ishaa read when he was growing up; we grabbed it from his parents' house over Christmas ( Read more... )

"Dad, would you be happy if, when I'm 11 and they're filming the seventh movie of Harry Potter, Daniel Radcliffe came up to the door and asked me to be in the seventh movie?"

Deer tick. On stickybear's back.

Fuck.

Yes, we got it off intact. There was no blood and it did not appear engorged. Also, only 20-40% of ticks are carriers and the tick must be attached for at least 24 hours to transmit. And we're calling the pediatrician tomorrow. But still. Fuck.