Parenting Archive

Another one bites the dust

Every blogger extraordinaire knows that if you don’t like a post you put up, but don’t want to take it down, you need to quickly change the subject. Hence, I will change the subject. But first, I won’t. (Ain’t so extraordinaire) There are many reasons to blog. There is fame and fortune. There is ego.

Thoughts of a sleepless brain at 4 am

We are slowly coming out of an over two hour seizure. This has not happened for a long long time, this one was bad; she became cyanotic, a first. I so maxed out her meds that I won’t even tell you how much she got. The doc on call says that is the only thing,

“Please accept my resignation. I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.” ~Groucho Marx

Wow. I did not mean to start such controversy! But then, I love it. Several topics in this post. The odds that the physical therapist of the last two posts has even seen my original email (with my snarky clause, as opposed to a Santa clause, of course) are very slim. It was actually written

“The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.” ~Napoleon Bonaparte

Let’s say you are a cat lover. Unfortunately your cat has some problem and needs medication every day at noon (I actually spent a year giving a cat insulin shots daily), so you hire a neighbor to do it since you work. One day your cat is really sick, almost dead, you take it to

“I’m reviewing the situation …” ~Fagin (from Dickens’ Oliver Twist)

I’m reviewing the situation Can a fellow be a villain all his life? All the trials and tribulations! Better settle down and get myself a wife. And a wife would cook and sew for me, And come for me, and go for me, And go for me, and nag at me, The fingers, she will

“Floating in this cosmic jucsi we are like frogs oblivious to the water starting to boil. Noone flinches we all float face down.” ~Brandon Boyd

Freya’s son is disabled. Nothing at all like “ours.” The problem lies in the fact that his intellect is normal, his disability is physical, and not so big a deal (to us, it is all relative) … but enough that middle school is a bitch. He often eats in the school cafeteria alone, others won’t

Full disclosure

I have a couple of posts coming up and will be back to regular posting, I know it’s been intermittent. Working on posts on guilt, residence vs. not and how Pearlsky fits in, another tough email that I got, the work stuff that is oh so close, etc. For now, a quick post with full

Dear Lindsay:

Sometimes people leave comments or use the contact page and don’t leave their email address. I wish you would, I often would like to personally respond. Lindsay left the following comment on this post (probably referring to item 11, a particularly rude comment I made about social workers and school nurses) : I really enjoy