April was insanely busy. But I guess that makes me appreciate certain things all the more. I'm grateful for (what my kids and I have started very appropriately calling) rainbow weather! Even if it meant getting caught in sudden rain, nay, HAIL (!) in the midst of a bike ride to the park. For mellow bedtimes reading to a little boy that has been ( Read more... )

I caved in today and, being late from school, with no dinner plans and having skipped the grocery stop (due to one of those meetings with a needy parent that draaagged), I decided to splurge and take myself & kids out to sushi. Having learned something since the last time though, I made it a rule that only *I* would get plates off the conveyor belt ( Read more... )

and she was great. I don't remember being THAT young/naive/sweet when I was seventeen (but I probably was)! On a funny note, I was teasing the kids that might resemble the babysitter in the Incredibles - we watched Jeff's DVD the other night while he helped me do my taxes, loved the "JackJack Attack" short- and it turns out she actually kind of ( Read more... )

...makes everything better ( Read more... )

So what if i haven't written an entry in months and there's all this meaningful stuff I could have, and wanted to blog about...I'm here just for a meme, now ( Read more... )

The weekend went by fast and was only moderately productive, but generally enjoyable. Saturday morning virtually evaporated and at noon I had T (my teaching partner)'s baby shower. It was veeery cozy and relaxing, especially nice after all the rush I'd gone through during the week attempting to coordinate her *other* baby shower that we had for ( Read more... )

October 7th I got a second child, complete with six-and-half years' worth of Programming By Others along with that unequivocally alien Male Gene - a frightening combination if I had the sense or the knowledge to think about it. At the time, I obviously had neither ( Read more... )

I'm...numb. It was not the way I expected nor hoped things would go. It makes me sad for everyone involved! He should be ok. He will be ok! It's not like we didn't see this coming - the writing on the wall, they say, I guess ( Read more... )

So here's my monthly entry ( Read more... )

We stayed there until seven, it was very pleasant, and there were five of us teachers (so there was a lot of shop talk, but not too much thankfully 'cause, well, it's the first day of school and we'd had enough of that), no two from the same school (so we don't see each other often, so it was great to see them all), except for T - my teaching ( Read more... )