Rachee

Ugh! I really thought I had built up an immunity to coughs and colds. Working with kids there is no end to runny noses, sneezes in your face (please teach your kid to cover that cough!) and germs and they have gotten me! Everything hurts! I got a coughing, sneezing, stuffy head, fever aches and pains…aaachoo!later-r

So far the mind is willing, the body and life, not so. I can’t seem to muster the enthusiasm to finish my projects let alone be bothered to prepare them. While The Bee was in her GS meeting today, I decided that I would finish Pop’s bag, no matter what. Through lots of muttered curses, the furrowing of the brow…

Days that I take The Bee to school, our mornings can be called schizophrenic. Despite laying clothes out, packing bags and preparing lunches the night before, we always seem to forget something, have to run back in to the house for something or we find ourselves stuck behind that dang school bus picking up some of the other kids on…

I have been hearing the same phrase from The Bee for the last few days ever since the “Today Show” featured a segment on ‘tweens: “Mommy! I’m a tween!” Tween is a concept that I am familiar with but new to her. She falls into that age, not old enough for boys (whew!) but too old for the babyish stuff…

Kids are great. It was a snow day, and despite the monster headache that has plagued me for a week and having to go to work (I do love my job but I want a snow day too!) I actually enjoyed the snow. Tuesday night the snow started to fall. That was all anyone talked about: How much snow do…