reading time: < 1 minute School days = 8 hours of quiet! Back to days of waking up at the butt crack of dawn!! The alarm was set for 0530, an hour that I can’t seem to shake, despite years out of the Army! But I, of course, woke up at 0445 and couldn’t fall […]
reading time: 2 minutes 0530 will come too fast,… Tomorrow is the first day of school which means the start of the wickedly early alarms for me! Worse, it means the start of daily wars with Donovan and Ty in an effort to get them the hell out of bed in the morning. Let’s […]
reading time: < 1 minute It’s still August, but is definately feels like fall is here already. Summer weather didn’t even really hit until the end of it and now it is getting cold! WTH?! This was the last full week of school for my yard apes, since they start back next Thursday. Ka’lani has his middle school […]
reading time: 3 minutes Donovan and I went to see the Army recruiter yesterday in Watertown. It was part of our deal that when exploring his options for the future, especially college, that he talk to the Army recruiter and listen with an open mind and take the ASVAB. With the economy the way […]
reading time: 3 minutes To set the scene, the classic tunes of the movie Grease were playing in the background, due in large part to the fact that I am a dork and love the movie. Please don’t hold it against me, or at least, don’t tell me that you do. But what can […]
reading time: 3 minutes My kindergarten graduate! I am so glad there is waterproof mascara, because I SO needed it for graduation! It wasn’t just a kindergarten ceremony this year; they had a “moving on” ceremony for the 5th graders because they are all headed to the Middle School next year. So the littles […]
reading time: < 1 minute My little man is graduating! From kindergarten, granted, but still a big deal in my world! I figure all the lovely black eyeliner I am sporting right now will be transplated from the eye area to parallel tracks down my cheeks. But it will be worth it to look like […]
reading time: 2 minutes The migraine from hell is upon me. I feel like there is a clan of dwarves mining for something in my skull. This is far less colorful than my usual phrase describing the state of my pain, which is that I feel like I have been skull-f&%ked by a herd […]
reading time: < 1 minute What the hell was he THINKING? This is what I was asking myself yesterday morning when Scott’s principal called. Apparently my usually well-behaved son has been a minion of Satan on the bus. Donovan rides the bus in the mornings, except for Wednesdays, and he hasn’t seen a thing, so […]
reading time: 3 minutes Snow Blues I think the snow hates me. :-( Or the school district. Or both. Or I just get up too damn early. It is a toss up. Today is Thursday and Thursday is garbage day. Our apartment complex has strict rules about garbage. There are times when I think […]