I took my kids out to get soft-serve ice cream cones, in mid-day blistering heat, as a reward for my daughter’s endurance (and struggle with such endurance, thus her siblings’ likewise tolerance) of her second blood draw in a week.
It’s a school day, so everyone else at her school is enduring the heat and humidity […]
So far, the diagnosis of toxic synovitis has stuck. My son is still limping heavily and is supposed to be on bed rest. He’s also on Alleve, which has the unfortunate stigma of being for (possibly elderly) folks afflicted with arthritis. Fortunately, my son doesn’t know about this stigma—at 10:00 pm, while trying to force-feed […]
Chalking this one up to learning something new every day, we’ve had a close encounter with toxic synovitis. Whether the diagnosis will stick remains to be seen, after a return from a visit to the hospital, where blood tests and a bone scan will be underway shortly. This is not for me, but for one […]
Being a writer and whatnot, I find news like this pretty aggravating. How an author can claim to have any credibility after denying the similarity of the passages is beyond me.
Things have been a bit intense for me lately. I think I’ve been doing the emotional equivalent of hiding underneath a rock. For a while we had gorgeous weather that enticed me out from under the rock when it was bright and cheerful, and then I wanted to retreat immediately at the end of the […]
I posted a series of photos on my other blog capturing a street brawl that occurred outside my home yesterday afternoon. It was a gorgeous, sunny, warm day—perfect for throwing down the gauntlet in the form of one’s shirt, and going at it, I suppose.
The yelling and carrying on was what first caught my attention. […]
It’s ironic that on the day my blog turned one year old, I was unable to get Internet access, because my neighbors were stealing it.
My daughter was just looking into a spinning light-up toy we have. “Mama,” she said, “I see your future. You’re gonna become a famous blogger, and you’re going to become a celebrity, and you’ll be rich!”
How does that girl know just what to say?
Earlier today, she was editing photos she took last weekend of Barbie […]
Yesterday, my first-grader son was talking all about how to make a bomb with his class at school. I didn’t understand where this was coming from, at first. We never talk about that stuff at home. His teacher had River come in at pick-up time; I had made the rare request that he do the […]
Every couple of hours, our entire plan shifts and changes. So I realized there’s not much point in attaching to anything at all. Well, maybe I knew that already, but what I mean is there’s little benefit in having solid plans beyond what I’m doing at the moment and where I might need to be, […]