September 2008

Why I haven’t been blogging

September 15, 2008

Sick. Sick. Sick. Sick. Sick. That was me last week. I don’t know that I’ve ever taken off pretty much a full week for being sick before. This was worse than the Norovirus. It was worse than, well, any sickness I’ve ever felt before. And it wouldn’t go AWAY! The weekend before: hmmm… I don’t [...]

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Silly Saturdays – Make Your Own Disease Name

September 13, 2008

After a hard week where pretty much the whole house is in some way sick, we needed a good laugh. Boy did we find one. The Disease Mongering Engine randomly generates diseases with ridiculous names and descriptions. I laughed until my drink almost came out of my nose. Scary thing – some of them are [...]

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Different, Superhuman, or the Genetic Future?

September 10, 2008

TV Show Alert!! A while back I saw this awesome show on the Discovery Channel called “Real Superhumans and the Quest for the Future Fantastic” (Click link for listings). It chronicles several individuals with astonishing abilities that no one can really explain and tries to delve into the science of how the brains of these [...]

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Special Ed and Symbolism

September 8, 2008

J-Man’s elementary school has this laser-precise process for parents dropping off and picking up their kids from school. The carpool/soccer-parent-van/whatever lane snakes around in the right lane as everyone waits their turn to deposit or reclaim children at the front of the school. When picking up, each car has a number on a hang tag [...]

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When School Meets He-Who-Would-Not-Nap

September 5, 2008

The past three days have been a whirlwind. Yes he’s gone at school most of the day and supposedly that’s some sort of ‘free time’ people imagine I have now, but we’ve used that time to try to dig out of the bottomless pit of chaos that our lives had become through neglect while we [...]

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Not all That Wordless Wednesday II – After-School Special

September 3, 2008

Phew! He did well today. Here’s the really brief report. Me = cute; teachers = know it; Daddy carrying all my crap into the school = pack mule; going to my classroom without Mommy and Daddy = enough crying to make said Mommy and Daddy feel guilty; Mommy and Daddy = now what?; transitions = [...]

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Wordless Wednesday – First Day of School Edition

September 3, 2008

Sniff.

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‘Twas the Day Before the First Day of Preschool

September 2, 2008

We met with his new teacher today here at the house, and what a nice and on-top-of-things person she is! We were very impressed and very thankful she’ll be his teacher. She invited us to visit the classroom this afternoon so we went over to the elementary school just a little bit ago and sat [...]

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