I'm not good at being a public school parent, really I'm not ( Read more... )

I think the theme for this beginning school year has been 'so far, so good'. There's been more running around than I care for, but then again, I care for zero so I'm not the best judge of enough or too much. The kids have their ridding lessons, Ruth is doing ballet again and there are therapists out the wazoo, as usual ( Read more... )

While the kids are otherwise occupied ( Read more... )

I don't know if I've talked much about the incredible blessing my community has been to us for the last 3 months since Jonah's crisis. In general, this community has been awesome to us pretty much from the moment we unloaded the van. Just a couple of weeks after we moved here, Duane was waiting in line to vote at our (then) municipal shed and ( Read more... )

Many of the changes brought about by our New Normal were totally anticipated and while they aren't anything like I'd call fun, well, it's hard to be annoyed by something you saw coming a mile away and can't really get out of. I spend a lot of time in the car now. We spend a lot more on gas. The other 2 kids also now spend a lot of time whining ( Read more... )

The big thing that's been on my mind lately really isn't Jonah or Ben or Ruth or anything like that ( Read more... )

I've since learned that the Special Ed Director I mentioned last time is brand new on the job- she started in January and her "all no, all the time" predecessor is mysteriously gone. There was no mention of her resignation anywhere and I went to the on-line archive of the board of Ed meeting minutes and there's a bit about the hiring of the current ( Read more... )

I actually had a productive and happy meeting with the school! Someone alert the media! This is a first ( Read more... )

Today is commencement at Westminster. Obviously I'm not going to be there. Even if I were a student there this semester, I don't think I'd have gone. I didn't go last year ( Read more... )

Oh, man. Man, man, man. That's about all I can say. Oh, man ( Read more... )