July's threads are up on the Chronic Illness Moms and the Bible Believing Christians subforums.

Dd just let me read a short story she wrote. It made me cry. Damn, this girl is good.

Just keep swimming...

Marek's tree has about a dozen apples growing!

The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention over and over again is the very root of judgement, character, and will. An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence. ~William James

Shoring up weaknesses and setting strengths to sail...

Shoring up weaknesses and setting strengths to sail...

My DD is arguing with me that pi is not an unending nonrepeating number. Because, you know, her 6th grade brain and reasoning skills are obviously superior to centuries of mathematical geniuses and thought.

So if I am having a hard time getting my daughter to do her math lesson because she is making hexaflexagons and thinking about patterns do I consider that a success?

Man. The spammers are starting early today!

Quiz: why would you find an almost completely eaten apple core saved carefully in a bowl in the fridge?

Quiz: why would you find an almost completely eaten apple core saved carefully in a bowl in the fridge?

"Oh, me-o-my-o, look at Miss Ohio. She wants to do right but not right now."

Who will go down to those shady groves~And summon the shadows there? And tie a ribbon on those sheltering arms~In the springtime of the year? The songs of the birds seem to fill the wood~That when the fiddler plays~All their voices can be heard~Long past their woodland days...Loreena Mckennitt - The Mummers' Dance

I always give up most of my social media for Lent, but with the election, I finally got fed up with Facebook, so for the tail end of Lent, I'm giving up Facebook and hanging out in this lovely, civil, election free social media zone with all of you wonderful people instead. Sanity now, please.

March is going to be the longest month ever.

March is going to be the longest month ever.

The interview is over. Now she waits for at least two more months. Just a taste of college app season for next year!

I've been invited to tea at the neighbor's and told to bring my own tea :-/

Guys, I'm not ready for another dd to go through puberty. I'm just not. The drama!!!!

Only an hour in, and I already want to strangle my 9 year old. Or myself. That is all.

Fair be the page that the New Year uncloses ~ And may'st thou find never a thorn midst thy roses.

Nice christmas present: mailman just delivered the original 8th grade certificate of dd. We are done with exams for a while... :)

Ice cream for me because he is taking his CC finals now. Seriously, I get so much more nervous than he does.

What is worse than a leaking roof? A leaking roof that you just paid $8000 to repair. So it wouldn't leak.