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It takes a village

There’s this kid at school that’s been hassling AE for quite a while now.  At first it didn’t seem like a big deal, and was in fact material for pretty funny school journal entries.  But then it continued.  Almost every day AE would come home saying that Alex S. had punched him in the privates.  […]

I should not laugh, but oh, I do

Last night at dinner, the conversation went a little something like this.  Unfortunately for him, N was outside putting the new license plates on my car and missed the entire thing. Miss T: ROWR!!  I a LION!  I scare you! AE: [giggling] Miss T: ROWR!  ROWWWWWWWWWWWR! Me: [laughing] Eat your food please. Miss T: I […]

This and that

I managed two whole posts in a row that had a cohesive theme throughout.  Tonight my streak comes to an end. My dryer is a piece of shit, doo-dah, doo-dah* The damn thing has started eating drawstrings.  It happened a few times before, but it was sporadic and so I didn’t think much of it […]

Conversations with AE – School journal version

Every so often AE has free-writing time in class.  I’m not certain of the exact assignment, to be honest, but it’s pretty clear there’s no prompt.  Free-association first-grade style, I suppose.  I think they do it every Monday for sure, as a lot of the entries seem to relate to his weekend activities.  At any […]

And so it goes

Life is ridiculously chaotic of late, what with AE’s baseball games and Miss T’s gymnastics and my attempts at training for San Francisco and the usual work/laundry/dinner/bedtime routine, it’s just a little crazy up in here these days.  So instead of a coherent blog post you get a scattered mess of random.  Which is different […]