On school days, Rerun has to get up around 6:40-ish.  Sometimes we get him up a little earlier, sometimes a little later.  The bus comes at 7:15 am, so he and I walk out the door at 7:10.  It makes for an early morning.  By the time Rerun gets home, at around 10:45, he’s ready […]

The last couple of weeks before midwinter break vacation were not pleasant ones for Ane.  While her math grades are slowly improving, the new semester has also started.  This meant an increase in homework that she belatedly informed us about. And when I say “belatedly,” I mean at 8 pm on a Thursday night when […]

The bottom line?  Ane hates math.  The other bottom line?  Her father and I don’t care that she hates it.  She still has to do it. But we do care about the fact that she is pretty much failing math in a big way.  And it didn’t seem to matter what we did.  She is […]

I put Rerun on his bus yesterday morning without any problems.  He’d had a yogurt for breakfast and all seemed well. As the older two were eating their own breakfasts, I got a phone call from Rerun’s teacher, Ms. M, who informed me that he’d needed to go potty first thing this morning (not a […]