Happy Birthday little bear

I was going to use this blog to bitch about the fact that instead of lounging on a beach while a pool boy brings me planter’s punch, I get to spend mine strapped into a dental chair having my three remaining wisdom teeth pulled because contrary to popular belief, my mouth just isn’t big enough [...]

A plague on all your cell phones

Cell phones have become a plague on the modern high school.
I love my cell phone as much as the next person, but I realize there is a time and a place to use it. During the middle of a school day, while I’m supposed to be teaching is obviously not the time to be checking [...]

An Easter thought

My dear friend Eee and I spent a good portion of my son’s first year of life comparing babies to cats. Although this may sound a bit cruel or degrading, we meant it all with the affection. Eee, after all, really loves cats.*
This is not going to be a list of all the reasons cats [...]

The insult of the day

After years of listening to me complain about my students being rude, disrespectful and a whole host of other words I’d never call them to their faces, a dear friend sent me this article. Although it is out of the U.K., it speaks to a growing problem here in the states as well. As it [...]

I am a grant writing masta!

I’m getting a new digital camera!
Ok, so that’s not entirely true. The newspaper staff I advise is getting a new camera. There’s a good chance I won’t even get to use it. Especially since my kids will no doubt be fighting over who gets to use the new camera and who gets stuck with our [...]

Friendship in a Ziploc bag

Today I finally got to do more than just mush my bag.
I added flour, sugar and milk. Then I mushed it. It was exciting.
On Friday our home ec teacher sent out an email offering friendship bread starters. Although I had no idea what it was exactly, lately I’ve been a rather intrepid cook, so I [...]

What exactly are we saving?

I am not a fan of daylight savings time.
It’s not just because I’ve gotten lazy from living in an area where the clocks never changed. I can never remember when we are supposed to spring forward or fall back, because I haven’t had to do it since I was 18. Even when people remind me [...]

A riddle wrapped in a mystery wrapped in a diaper

My son is a mystery to me.
I touch his nose and make a boop noise and he disolves into gigles. I can do this for five minutes straight, each time getting the same bout of hysteria, and then two seconds later, stone cold silence. My husband can play a snoring game with him,* and yet [...]

Comment on a comment

Ok, so I just spent like 20 minutes thinking about, writing and then rewriting a comment to a complete jerk who left a nasty comment about this entry. I don’t have the effort for a whole other blog (although I was going to write about the hilarity of my son’s first discovery of cake and [...]