I had an interesting experience/epiphany yesterday at the homeschooling co-op. First off, watching this "school" evolve is making me proud - in a proud for humanity sort of way - to a degree that I rarely feel. This isn't "my" baby or personal pride that I'm feeling, though I help out... but it is such a huge undertaking that I feel awe sometimes ( Read more... )

OK, this will be very dull - so anyone who actually reads my lj, consider yourself forwarned. (I'd put it behind a cut, but it's been a while since I've done that and I can't remember how ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago I had a talk with an old friend as to why I am so weird... as in, different from mainstream society. I mean, if it's normal I don't do it. We homeschool, are self identified gamers and poly (even if we rarely spend time in these areas any more - they are still a strong part of our identity and outlook. And gee, maybe the fact that ( Read more... )

Elisabeth was just pretending to be a Mommy Ghost (I have no idea why a "ghost, it didn't really seem relevant), and announced "Werner, I'm going to give you a lesson." When Werner asked why, she answered "because I'm a MOMMY, and that's what MOMMY'S do." hee hee ( Read more... )

Dawn... If you are still reading lj, could you please contact me as soon as possible. Also, if anyone (like Jeff maybe?) knows Dawn's contact info., could you either get it to me or let her know I'm trying to reach her. It's sorta important. Oh, and Jeff... I got your message, and yes I want more information on this. Call whenever you can.

Thanks!

I figure I should post again about the miscarriage... though really I feel pretty ok emotionally on that front. I have a lot of supportive people around me (especially Werner of course), but I rather quickly got to the place where I moved on. I'm almost feeling a bit guilty for being too "casual" about it at this point. Someone will ask ( Read more... )

I debated writing this until it was "official"... but it feels pretty damn official, so I'm writing. Shortly after lunch today I used the bathroom and noticed I was "spotting." Werner quickly looked up info on the net, and found out that brownish discharge (which I was having) was actually not that unusual in the first trimester. But this wasn't at ( Read more... )

So, I'm unemployed. Being a caregiver, and having one's patient pass away will do that to a person. On the bright side, I've been convinced by Lou's daughter and a couple of my recent co-workers to look into unemployment. Since I've never in my life filed for unemployment, it has been a new experience for me. And much to my shock and surprise I'm ( Read more... )

So... we are running screaming from the boy scouts. Quite frankly, from the beginning it was one of those "moral quandry" things that I probably should have seen coming. I just figured that it would be easy. Werner would go, have fun, obviously not buy into the more political "anti-gay" stuff (which would be unlikely to even come up), and I had ( Read more... )

The fellow I worked for the last couple of years passed away last Friday. His name was Lou Georges, and he was a really good person who had endured more hardship in his life than a person should have to go through. The only good of it was that he went downhill really fast, and it was only about a month from him being diagnosed with cancer until he ( Read more... )