Excuse me while I get a little political here

I am not, by nature, a political person. I have a few causes I feel very strongly about, and the rest I don’t really get too involved in. There are issues I am conservative about and issues I am very liberal about. I like to play the opposite side with anyone I talk to in [...]

A trip down memory (board game) lane

After exhausting all the fun a nearly empty basement, boxes full of toys and a train table can give a two-year-old, and realizing that what I was trying to tell myself was rain was actually snow, I pulled out one of my son’s unopened birthday presents. We like to dole the toys out a little [...]

The governor makes one, kind of smart decision

I’m not generally a fan of most educational mandates. They usually come from governing bodies made up of people who haven’t stepped foot in an actual school since they were actually students some 20-60 years ago. Even those who had some sort of educational background, gave it up years ago to pursue politics and as [...]

A moment to breathe

YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My grading is done. Well, at least most of it is. I still have three or four things to grade for a student who missed like two weeks of school and decided not only to wait until the last minute to make up her work (and then bitch about her grade to me), but [...]

Yet another example of food controlling my life

Making dinner for a toddler is a frustrating experience. Some days he cleans his entire plate and then wants whatever I’m eating. And usually whatever the stranger at the next table is eating. Then, he gets mad because he doesn’t get it (at least from the stranger). Other days I watch him eat four strawberries, [...]

The Wrath of KID

So it’s just me and the monkey for a few days. My husband is away at some sort of conference. I’m still not sure what he does at these “conferences.” All I know is that while he’s gone somewhere in Tennessee, it is just me and my son.
And today, of all days, he decided [...]

I may become a TV junkie

I think I’m being pressured to watch more TV. Not in that after school special sort of way. It’s more subtle. No one is telling me what a square I’ll be if I don’t just flip one more channel. But at lunch, all my friends (and the two annoying people who sit at our table), [...]

I’m baaaaack

So I’ve been out of the blog-o-sphere for awhile now. I haven’t been writing. I haven’t been reading. I haven’t been doing much of anything. This is due in part to being way behind in all my grading. It’s partly due to being a bit sick (and not just a little cold kind of sick, [...]