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Teddy gets his first major punishment*
Teddy wanted to stop at a friend's house after school. Peter reluctantly agreed, telling him he needed to be home at 5 ( Read more... ) -
Childhood memory
I have the first meeting with my new team this week. As an icebreaker, I'm going to ask each person to recall a quick childhood memory. I haven't decided mine yet--I get the luxury of mulling it over, which the others won't. But as I was thinking about it, this came to mind...
I was at Camp Takodah, a summer camp where my parents worked when I was ( Read more... ) -
Short, way-overdue book updates
Louise Bates Ames' Your Eight-Year-Old: Lively and Outgoing was not as helpful as some of her previous books (most notably Your Three-Year-Old: Friend or Enemy), but was still fairly interesting, despite the outdated notions of gender roles. I did find the section on sensitivity to criticism quite accurate. I was irked to see the old crap about ( Read more... ) -
rules are easier to teach than nuance (rambling rant)
And 8-year-olds may not be the best audience for nuance.
But stillTeddy's huge pile of homework (mostly work he hadn't completed in class, which has never been an issue before but I'm feeling Teh Guilt because it's a recent issue probably because I'm working at an office for the first time in his memory and he's adjusting :breathe: ) included one ( Read more... ) -
Comprehensively
We were supposed to go out to dinner last night. Teddy had a dentist appointment, so Peter had the car. They picked me up at work, and we were going to go someplace new.
But as I settled into the driver's seat, Teddy complained that he didn't feel well and said he didn't want to go out. Not even to McDonald's. So we knew he was sick ( Read more... ) -
Missed my blogiversary
But since it was yesterday, I think I'm still within the grace period ( Read more... ) -
lots of new stuff
Despite my good intentions, I'm still not posting as often as I'd like. Oops ( Read more... ) -
no excuses
{not writing about Boston yet - too raw... maybe later [maybe not]}
Y'know, I thought I'd be blogging all the time 'cause I wasn't working ( Read more... ) -
books
Blargh. In the rapid transition off my company laptop, I apparently lost the notes I'd taken on books I've read recently... well, not so recently now, as I'm terribly behind. :sigh ( Read more... ) -
Update
Everything is just fine. I'm over the stomach flu just in time for the end of Teddy's vacation, which ended up being all about DVDs and books and not at all about museums, but Teddy didn't object. At all. To my minor dismay, he's now completely hooked on Friends. Go figure.
My job search continues apace, with a number of promising leads. Ironically ( Read more... )