Woke up with weather-induced migraine and ear ache this morning. Not fun. Was supposed to go to the dentist at 10, but not going to go hang out nearly upside down with this much sinus pressure & light sensitivity. Nope. Called and canceled appointment. Will call in the morning and reschedule. Two more periodontal cleanings and then the real "fun" ( Read more... )

The kids and I spent the majority of Saturday in Addison at FenCon. Didn't see much of the actual con, but had a good time, anyway ( Read more... )

Two conversations later...and neither kiddo has to take summer school for math or math related stuff this year. Yay. And there truly was great rejoicing ( Read more... )

I think the Universe is out to get me this week ( Read more... )

The school year, that is ( Read more... )

Today I left the kids for more than an hour without direct adult supervision. Okay, some of you are going, what? Your kids are more than old enough to be doing stuff on their own or being left on their own. Whatever. Well, yeah if they were your average thirteen and fourteen year old they'd have been climbing the walls to have some Not-With-the-' ( Read more... )

Sort of ( Read more... )

So I guess the new HB meds aren't having a deleterious effect on my normal stamina. ;) Woke up this morning and decided that some things in the house really needed to have a serious Fall Cleaning. Like the front bathroom. This is the kids bath and the only one in the front of the house (for guests). This has long been a bone of contention between ( Read more... )

After all the weirdness, grade-wise, of the last couple of weeks for the Boykin, its time to brag a little on his sister ( Read more... )

All last week and the first part of this week I've been feeling very much 'at loose ends". We're still in the honeymoon phase of the new school year so I'm pretty much need to stick close to the house for the next several weeks. This is so I can douse fires at the schools should something come up and also because we've still got roofers doing ( Read more... )