A student in my online class emailed me that she ‘really, really needed help with the lab assignments and she really, really needed to meet with me on campus face to face to talk’ so I set up a time with her and dropped the girls off early today with my parents and Surprise! the [...]
Entries from October 2008
October 21, 2008
unbearable lightness of being
Today was a freakishly good one. I spent almost all of it outside which is what I need. I go a bit crazy without fresh air and sunshine. T woke up at 5:00 am but the handyman was all over it so L and I slept in until 7:00. I am not a morning person. [...]
October 20, 2008
sugar
T is still a super picky eater. I found by putting a small amount of powdered sugar on her waffles (whole grain I promise) I could get her to eat them and thus eat something. I was kind of tired this morning so must have been a bit generous with my sprinklings. I promise that [...]
October 19, 2008
the perils of virtual community
So you may be seeing a bit more action from me on the old blog. For the past year or so I have spent a lot of my late night computer down time on my local mommy forum but a couple of things have happened that make me realize that I need to move on. [...]
October 16, 2008
in general
I’m feeling better (maybe because both my children are napping at the moment). I have been pumping milk every morning so as to have a stash so that I can leave baby L with her daddy or my mom more (I never left T because I hated pumping so much but I think I have [...]
October 14, 2008
just a tuesday morning
I guess this is the post where I admit that I am having kind of a hard time this week with the adjustment to mothering two small children. T has been out of sorts or maybe the reality of the situation has finally dawned on her. Baby L is here to stay. We went to [...]
October 9, 2008
like a fish without a bicycle…
Today on Fresh Air was an interview with an author that writes about the ‘conservative women’s movement’ and how Palin is at the center or a lot of issues right now. I thought her analysis was excellent especially the co-opting of the feminist movement language to promote a conservative agenda.
And I love this take on [...]
October 6, 2008
don’t say thank you just get it done
Suffice to say that I am so over some of my students right now that I’m really glad fall break is almost upon us. I have one student that demanded I call her because she is a slacker and didn’t set up her exam on time and then when I helped her out (really I [...]
