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Harry has decided to drop out of school. Right now we are just dealing with trying to get him out of the huge depressive state he is in. Everyday or every other day he tells us that he doesn't know if he can go on. Meaning keep living. I am at a loss. We are all at a loss. The outpatient thing did nothing. New meds have not kicked in yet but ( Read more... ) -
Hockey
So the twins are in Mites hockey. They were supposed to have a game Sunday but it was moved until today. They have a game tomorrow. Starting Friday their league is hosting a three day Mites on Ice tournament. They have two games on Saturday and a game on Sunday. Also each family has to work five hours at the tournament. This is third grade hockey ( Read more... ) -
The White Upper-Class Fetishization of the Family Dinner
These studies have been tossed around for several years now--kids that routinely sit down for a shared family dinner get better grades, are less likely to do drugs, etc. Of course these studies fail to say whether this is about correlation rather than cause and effect. For example, doesn't the ability to sit down for a family dinner point to , some ( Read more... ) -
Bitches be Crazy
So we spent the week at the cabin and are now in lansing visiting family and taking care of house business. Jay started getting a sore throat and feeling a little achy on saturday. For this reason we postponed a trip to his 90 year old grandparents. But we called his mother and she said she can't chance getting sick so she can't see us. Jay told ( Read more... ) -
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Jay is on call today and flies out to Vegas for a conference tomorrow and won't be back until wednesday early evening. It is me and all the kids! I called my dad and asked if he could come visit so i won't go out of my skull!
Went to the first meeting of a small, laid back book club. There were only 5 of us but all seemed like ok gals. We don't ( Read more... ) -
Sucky
Having a bad day. Since friday had a migraine. Zelda woke up before 5am in full wake-up mode. She still wakes up to eat but this was not that. She got up and was ready to go. I put her in her crib thinking maybe she would play with some toys and maybe fall back to sleep. Nope. I ended up going downstairs with her for about 45 minutes. Got back to ( Read more... ) -
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Migraine. I had lost my prescription pain meds for about two months but yesterday did i desperate search and found them. The pain killers notch back the pain by about 75% so i am somewhat functional. My migraines do 3 day cycles in a bell curve shape. I am in the second day and have not started the downwards stage yet. When i have one i am very ( Read more... )