So after three terrible weeks, Katie Beth is finally putting in the contacts on her own in less than 10 minutes. A huge improvement! We can finally go back to eating dinner at a normal time and doing things in the evening ( Read more... )

After much mulling over traffic woes, this is (I think) our final version for the California Road Trip ( Read more... )

I am so desperately upset about the shooting ( Read more... )

Today Katie Beth raced through the math curriculum that was supposed to take at least an hour. Each day is supposed to take 30-60 minutes and she always spends about 10 minutes on it. I've started combining days together. She is going to be disappointed when she gets to real school and discovers she can't just go to the next day's lesson when she ( Read more... )

It's been a long time ( Read more... )

On Monday, Katie Beth and I spent THREE HOURS reorganizing her playroom because it was a disaster. There is now a labeled place for everything - the shelves are labeled, the bins are labeled...and Katie Beth rediscovered many "lost" toys ( Read more... )

In the end, as it seems things always do, the auction seems to have worked out - Sandy and Laura got $1200 in sponsorships, we persuaded (forced?) 50 people to buy tickets, and we got lots and lots of things for people to bid on ( Read more... )

We had a fabulous weekend, but WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING TO MY COUNTRY ( Read more... )

A friend of mine gave birth a week ago and she is really suffering. Breastfeeding is hard and baby has serious leg problems (dad has a type of MD, no word yet though if that's what baby has, but obviously it's possible). There's some sort of hip displacement, he can't fully extend his legs and one has a club foot ( Read more... )

So the Old Songs festival was a bit of a bust this year ( Read more... )