Month: February 2007

Blogfest

Evan had a blast doing everything EXCEPT sitting still at tonight’s bloggers’ gathering. The pictures are posted, but my favorite is Evan and his new girlfriend.

teenagers are lazy

This is how Tommy and Sarah would like to spend the weekend. No. This is how Tommy would like to spend any part of the day that he is not playing WoW. This is how Sarah would like to spend any part of her day that involves me.

dream analysis

Lately I have had a recurring theme to my increasingly occuring nightmares. The basic plotline (do dreams really have plots?) involves me frantically trying to be constantly aware of where all the children are and what they are doing. I count to five over and over again as I try to watch five rapidly moving […]

Tommy needs to pass History.

We’ve been getting e-mails from the aide who spies on Tommy to monitor his behavior in classes. She expressed concerns that the History teacher was unhappy with Tommy’s failure to take notes and his tendency to read during class. I started asking for an m-team to meet the teacher and figure out how a child […]

Good potty, Bad potty

Why does the child who spends hours each day flushing the potty at our house scream in terror when public restroom potties flush?

I miss caffeine.

Today I look even funnier than usual. Evan decided the bathroom lights should all be off while I fixed my hair and makeup. In order to be certain that the lights remained off, he positioned himself directly in front of the bathroom mirror and screamed if I tried to step close to the mirror. I […]

gotta draw the line somewhere

My side of the medicine cabinet has gained half a dozen teenager hair products. I didn’t put them there. When I want to use my hair dryer, I have to find it on Sarah’s desk. I didn’t use it there. My clothes are in a dirty laundry pile, hidden in Sarah’s room. I didn’t wear […]