ICE!

December 7, 2011

On Sunday, I was excited to be invited to experience ICE! at the Gaylord by the lovely women who run Momz Share and the Gaylord hotel.  The only thing that gave me pause was that this would be my third trip to National Harbor in three days, because I was there Friday to pick up my race [...]

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Leveled

November 29, 2011

Like most elementary schools, Michael's does a leveled reading book system.  And last year he made very little progress.  So little, that in March I emailed his Kindergarten teacher and let her know I was concerned about how little progress he was making.  Her response to me was less than satisfactory.  And while I wasn't [...]

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He’s Going To Get There

November 15, 2011

It is no secret Michael's early schooling was not easy.  There was his first preschool, that I really liked, but they broke his hand.  And then I moved him to the preschool that tortured us both, and we left, abruptly.  And then we went to the preschool of awesome.  And then we left for kindergarten. [...]

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I’m Not Sure If I Should Laugh Or Cry

November 14, 2011

I'm coming up on what is possibly the busiest two weeks of the year for me.  In between hosting Thanksgiving for both families, I have two major trials at work, Foster needs emergency surgery, Doug is starting a brand new job, so he is totally out of pocket, and Michael has just started spelling tests [...]

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Obligatory Halloween Post

November 1, 2011

Halloween seemed to go on forever this year. With the class parties on Friday and trick or treating yesterday. And there was no school on Monday so all day all I heard was " when can I trick or treat?" Michael was some dude from Star Wars. No matter how many times he tells me, [...]

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Good Enough Is Good Enough

October 10, 2011

Dear Michael, I don't tell you this enough, but I am so, so proud of you.  You have turned into this amazing young man, and you try so hard.  You try to do the right thing.  You try to be kind.  You try to be good.  You work at school, at soccer and in karate. [...]

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In Which I Might Have Lost My Mind

September 26, 2011

Late Thursday afternoon I got a cryptic email from Michael's teacher that said something to the affect of, "I'd like to set up a conference with you to discuss how to make sure Michael has a successful year this year." And I lost my shit.  Seriously. Up until this point all reports were good.  He [...]

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Scenes From My House Last Night

September 15, 2011

Doug and I have a very strict once you are in bed you are in bed rule.  You can get up to go to the bathroom, but otherwise, go to sleep.  Typically, the half an hour after bedtime is met with lots of yelling "mom" and lots of yelling back "go to bed." My house, [...]

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Blueprints For An Ark

September 8, 2011

It has literally been raining in DC since like the dawn of time.  I keep getting all the flash flood warnings on my phone.  (I know there are other parts of the country where flooding is a SERIOUS PROBLEM and schools are closed and buildings have collapsed.  I am by no means minimizing that.)  I'm [...]

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Better

August 30, 2011

Michael's verdict on first grade has been things like "awesome" and "I think I'm better at first grade than kindergarten."  I wanted to tell him there were very good reasons for that, but instead I told him it was because he was growing up and he knows what school expects from him now.  He also [...]

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