For the last few weeks I have been waking up nightly somewheres between 3:05 AM and 3:15 AM. Some nights I fall back asleep with a cursory glance at the clock*, some nights I jump out of bed and run downstairs to check on my mom or The Bee and then there are too many nights that I stay up…
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…