Workus Interruptus

Dear Fellow County School Workers (at my son’s school),
Allow me to start by thanking you for calling me today to come get my son, your student, from school today. I understand that he was not feeling well, and that he wasn’t doing much in the way of work. It makes me feel good that your [...]

A Genius in the Making

(Me, preparing cough medicine for both boys who have been coughing all weekend)
Mom: Scamp, come take this medicine on the counter.
Scamp: Why?
Scamp: COUGH COUGH COUGH COOOUUUGGHHH!!!!
Mom: Well, that might have something to do with it.

Said Much More Eloquently Than I Did

Julie,
Thank you.
“No mother brings a child into the world hoping to give him psychiatric drugs. It is always a last resort, approached in fear and trembling, after research and alternatives and every other intervention have been exhausted. The potential side effects and possible links to dangerous behavior, we know, and we wring our hands over [...]

My Child Is Not To Be Feared

Okay, so I’m sure that many of you know the sad situation in Sudbury, Massachusetts at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School. A 16 year-old student who has Asperger’s Syndrome and other psychological issues stabbed to death in a school bathroom a 15 year-old student.
This is incredibly tragic. My heart goes out to both families because, well, [...]

We’ve Been Wii’d

Hi!! Still here? I’m SO glad to see you!
So between the sick kid, the migraines, the getting my period every two weeks, and the working, my neighbor (whom I will be nominating for sainthood) lent us his Nintendo Wii for a week.
An entire week! He’s my new favorite person.
I kept looking out the window (with [...]

Someone Needs to Come And Calibrate My Work/Life Balance Scale

My eyelids are locking down as I type this, so more on the quickness, less on the making sense:

Someone tell me why I’m so exhausted every freakin’ day when I get home from work. It’s not like I do anything all day, right? I’m just chasing after a group of kids, teaching them, cheering them [...]