No Flashback today, because Tad has preempted it. Every year, the kids come home from school with some kind of craft that they have made and wrapped up at school as a present for Mom and Dad.  Last year, Ane made a calendar that we used over by the computer for the year.  Sometimes it’s […]

For a long time, I despaired of Tad ever having a friend outside of his sister. And even that’s not the same thing.  Ane is his friend and playmate, but that’s because she IS his sister and lives with him.  But when she has a friend over, Tad is not generally allowed to be a […]

The older two are on half-days right now for parent-teacher conferences.  I already had Ane’s conference on Thursday, which was the first of these half-days.  The kids are still eating lunch at school, but now it’s at an insanely early hour – I know Tad is eating lunch around 10:45, and I can’t imagine that […]

Tad is doing tremendously well in class right now.  His time spent in the mainstream general education kindergarten class is working out so well that his teacher told me that she couldn’t pick him out of the crowd when he’s working in there.  He does protest a little about going (he doesn’t want to miss […]