So, as I promised a reader a while back, I went looking for the video of the Monster drumming.
Now, I rarely think about how to archive my iPhone, so I had figured that the images were just on my harddrive, so I went diving into the movies in my Pictures folder. Continue reading
One of the things that comes with going to public preschool is homework.
This is the first time the Monster’s had homework assigned on a regular basis. This is, therefore, something unfamiliar to him and we’re still working out how best to handle it. Continue reading
I promised, so.
I’ve sent both campaigns the letters that I promised to send out, and I’m posting them here as well. I’ve tried to be as even-handed as I could be, given obviously how heated the campaign has been to date. Continue reading
Sorry for not posting as usual this weekend – I decided to take a break and spend as much of it with my family as I could, rather than worrying about blogging. 🙂
Anyway. So, I wrote last week about our disaster with bussing (see I Aim to Misbehave) on Tuesday afternoon. I was very happy, as I wrote, with the school system’s response to the issue and how they took me seriously when I complained about it. Continue reading
Today’s the last day of the Monster’s first full week at school.
After the debacle that was Tuesday, and the emotional roller coaster that was dealing with the school on Wednesday morning, I think things have actually somewhat straightened out. Continue reading
I don’t know if this would actually surprise people who know me or not. It probably shouldn’t be a shock, but who knows?
“Shiny. Let’s be bad guys.”
–Jayne, Serenity
Yes, two Firefly quotes to lead things off. (Gotta love Mal and Jayne, even if the quotes are from two different scenes…) I think that summarizes how I’ve felt for the last, oh, about twenty-four hours. Continue reading
At long last, yesterday was the Monster’s first day of school.
This had been a day that the wife had been dreading for a long time. Sending the Monster to public school was full of a host of unknowns, which we’d been dealing with for about a week on our end. Continue reading
Going to the Please Touch Museum brings out our major issue when we’re in public – the fact that our Monster is a runner.
In specific, if we’re not really paying attention to what he’s doing, he’s liable to take off in any given direction. Even with us paying attention, there were times that he dashed off and it took us a few moments to lock on to where he’d disappeared to. Continue reading
Since summer is ending for the Monster after this weekend, we decided to take part of the weekend to do a mini-vacation.
Originally, we’d planned on taking the entire weekend to go away, but given how we’ve had issues previously with massive disruptions to his schedule and issues we had with finding a reasonably-priced hotel, we decided to knock it down to a single day trip. Continue reading