last night, the KoE was up all hours raling about how he couldn't sleep. too hot. too itchy. too docking loud, if you ask me. I finally told him to go take a shower if he was that uncomfortable, but nooooooooo, he didn't want to take a shower. so I told him to stop asking me up.

he slept through the snow this morning, didn't even get up to go play ( Read more... )

He has to graph the results and needs fifty answers. Help a kid out? Thanks!

Poll Game question for my son's homework

Last week, it started off innocently enough. "Mama, what's chlorophyll?" I started to explain, but then took out my Blackberry. Called up Wikipedia, and spent the next three blocks reading out loud as we walked. We followed links for things we didn't understand. We gawked at the information. We laughed out loud ( Read more... )

My angel. Mine. He's back. We handed him over to my folks on Wednesday after school and got him at three on Saturday. No school on Friday, and administrative day for the school already on the books before little mr. fourth grader brought coke to school on Thursday ( Read more... )

 Alexandria's public schools have a lottery program ( Read more... )

I heart my kid's teacher so hard. She gets my kid. She gets me. She is so thrilled to be working with him, and agrees that he is a special little guy who needs a bit different treatment than most of her other kids. She was heartbroken to find that he's still being hazed by his classmates, and is thinking of starting some trust games on Fridays at ( Read more... )

When I left my client's office last week, I declined the offer of a drink at one of those Washington Power Establishments, saying, "No thanks, really, I have to get home to my son," and I, who have not a cent to my name until sometime after the beginning of the month, hopped into a cab and went home as fast as I could.  The KoE had called and left ( Read more... )

I'm losing hope that I'm the kind of add that can be medicated to aid focus. I think I'm just FUBAR on this one.  The latest med, Strattera, makes me miserable.  I didn't even wait to ask my doc's permission before I just stopped taking it. UGH. Next, i guess.  But if I can't find a medication that helps manage the chaos of my thoughts, I am going ( Read more... )

So the King of Everything calls me up one morning --staying with my folks for the night so I get some grown up time. "Mom! I made TWO paper airplanes. One was from my book but the second one? Was pure inspiration."

with such pure glee in his voice. How could you not love that kid????

I am making little bees out of pipe cleaners and googly eyes and tissue paper for my son's Valentines. Bee mine. With a lolly. About 30 of them ( Read more... )