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Yes, really.
Those of you that know him, understand why this is funny. Taylor loves to read. He likes to play video games. He’s smart, and cute and kinda geeky.
His reasoning? “No Homework!”
His shortsightedness is driving me crazy.
He gets to pick three electives and wants to take World Geography and [...]

I just heard thunder. Shit. It’s MARCH for god’s sake and I’m wearing flats without socks.
I had a great weekend, though. Celebrating a friend’s new job and a new friend’s 30th birthday. We had fun at Po’ Boy’s and no one one added any drinks to our tabs! [...]

Today is actually worse than yesterday.
This morning I took Taylor to the orthodontist’s office to get his retainer. I won’t recount the whole tale here, but suffice it to say, my son was so poorly behaved (and he’s 14! Not 4!) that I cried in front of the staff and assorted [...]

Saturday night I took the kids, Tay, Rea, and W., to see a performance by the BBQ Kittens, an improv group that performs shows similar to “Whose Line is it Anyway.”
On the way there we met Chris to switch cars. During the Chinese Fire Drill Chris dropped his OUR cell phone. [...]

My daughter was in quite a mood this weekend. In her defense, she was recuperating from being sick most of last week. On the other hand, gosh, she was being awfully, awfully awful.
Saturday Chris was gone most of the day. During his absence she started referring to him as “The MAN you [...]

Yesterday we did nothing presidential. Reagan and a friend went ice skating. And, silly teenage girls they are, wouldn’t wear gloves or coats because that would be “dorky.” Freezing, apparently, is “cool?”
While the kids were skating, SS, Taylor and I went to run errands. First stop, Vallartas for [...]

This was a weird morning. First my cell phone did the “missed call” ring at 6:03 am, over an hour before I had to get up. I don’t know how I missed a call since the phone was right next to the bed all night. Then it rang again, a minute [...]

Taylor had a good time at the dance. Too bad you can’t tell it by his expression in the picture of him and his date, J. My friend NHBC called his expression “deer in the headlights.” Alternately it could be, “OMG, J. is touching me!”
Yes, at my son’s middle school [...]

My 14-year-old son, Taylor, has a huge crush on a girl in his class, J. It took me by surprise, before this year he never mentioned girls; he didn’t seem to noticed their existence.
But since this school year started it’s been “J. said this…” “J. did that…”
It’s so cute.
He has [...]

My kids received their report cards last Friday.
Not awful, but:
Reagan had a C in science and Taylor had a low B.
Worse then that, though, was their teacher’s comment:
“Could do better.”
A less pretentious way of saying “doesn’t work up to full potential,” but more subtle than saying “Your spawn is LAZY.”
I’m really [...]