My computer is being uncooperative and I need cooperation from it right now.

Making choices and the values game.

One task done, a million tasks to go.

Whenever Knox County Schools appears on caller ID my heart skips a beat. They are calling to schedule the IEP. The meeting will go like this: 1. School says they LOVE Tommy and want him to repeat eighth grade. 2. We say we don’t want him there another year and begin listing our complaints about […]

Tomorrow is a hard day. Too many activities and too few people. The balancing act will have Doug and I dividing up to handle duties.

Doug is very crotchety. Everything I say gets me griped at or lectured and when I ask what’s bothering him he snaps that nothing is wrong. Sigh.

“Mom, your feet look like Dad’s in those shoes (Birkenstocks).” “WHAT?!?” Have I reached the age where women start looking like men already?? I feel a nervous breakdown coming on.

Doug is practicing his skills for parenting a teenage girl .

Finding Nemo lesson number one – Without bad, there is no good. If nothing bad happens, then nothing really good will happen either. You have to take the chance on the possibility of bad or you won’t experience the good that was risky. You need to have the bad stuff to appreciate the good stuff. […]

Sarah held and cuddled a newborn today. Lots of whining over things that don’t really matter in other places, but good fun and happy memories here. I wish Doug could have had the wonderful experiences with the other children that he has with Amy but time will make things balance out. As my father likes […]