The School Room
Walking through the dining room into the kitchen past my children, all busily attending to their schoolwork at the table, I am compelled to gush, "I LOVE you kids!!" Megan's…
Verve. (And Pizazz.)
Argh, my posting has been sparse. That irritates me... I must improve. I'll start by telling you how I spent my weekend. In this Albrecht Dürer woodcut, I am, sadly,…
Shared Inspiration
Overheard at the dining room table: "Take that, Math Machine!!" I need to thank Asperger Ninja for sharing her light-bulb moment that led to my own light-bulb moment, that led…
100 Boxes
I am not writing a long post today about the trip to Emergency Restoration Experts in Chandler to spend 4 back-breaking, sweat-dripping, treasure-finding hours digging through 100 boxes to find…
Words, words, words…
A boy after my own heart: The most difficult thing about Jacob and his vocabulary lessons is restraining his Aspergery impulse to read aloud page after page from our old,…
Not quite back to normal…
We are now two days into Tech Week for Robin Hood! - in which Megan, appropriately, plays the part of "Mother Meg", and Geneva plays the part of the old…
On the Run
This week has been a bit busier than usual. My normal schedule includes Karate 2x/week, theater 1x/week, RCIA 1x/week, RE-Choir-Youth Group 1x/week. This week has included in addition to all…
The Lab Coat
There aren't many constants in this world upon which you can rely with absolute, unfailing certainty, but one of the few I've found is that when The Boy gets a…