taken as a direct quote from soleta:

http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/may/23/st-lucie-teacher-has-class-vote-whether-5-year-old/

Melissa Barton said she is considering legal action after her son's kindergarten teacher led his ( Read more... )

Changed my userpics. All except my default one. Because, well, it's me ^^;

That's all :)

He's doing alot lot better. For a little while the Dr.s thought they might not have to do any skin grafts at all. However, he started getting a fever last night, and rather than risking infection they opted to go ahead and do the skin graft this morning. He's doing great, all things considered, and is apparently 99% out of the woods ( Read more... )

Apparently, he found a lighter his mom didn't realize was in his reach, and while playing with it it exploded on him and burned his chest. He's out of critical care and in the burn ward, now. He'll have to have several skin grafts onto his chest, but it's not(no longer?) life threatening. Also, apparently the criminal neglect thing was a ( Read more... )

My husband's best friend's 6-year old got life-lined to Riley Children's Hospital tonight. He caught himself on fire. We're not exactly sure what's going on beyond that. It sounds as if the boy's mom may be charged with criminal negligence, but that part was a bit unclear, and I'm getting it 2nd hand through two extremely shaken sources -- the ( Read more... )

Weekend was awesomeness. SWW and D-man here for Gencon. Much gaming had. Not all of it at the Con. Learned how to play several games. Settlers of Catan, Carcassone, S.P.A.N.C., which I actually won, Gloom, Ninja Burger, Mystery at the Abbey. Some were at the Con, some were here. Played several games I already knew how to play, but only get ( Read more... )

Happy belated birthday to soleta!

Happy birthday to justplainbob!

Happy early birthday to maboo!

Happy Easter to everyone, in whatever form you celebrate it.

On the twelfth day of Christmas, ( Read more... )

So my grandfather made it through his surgery all right. They ended up removing a good chunk of his large intestines as well as a bit of his small intestines. Turned out he had two tumors. One was almost definitely benign, the other almost definitely malignant. They're still waiting for the tests to say for positive. He's got a ... I wanna ( Read more... )