My niece finally realized she better get the damaged trees and limbs removed from her backyard before the city calls itself done picking up all the debris residents pile up on their curbs. So, she put out a call for help and Second Son and I, the most experienced with a chainsaw and cutting down [...]

Second Son had a friend over for the weekend (a friend who’ll likely get nicknamed Adopted Son because he’s pretty much campaigning for me to take him in and finish raising him, but that’s for another post) and Prima Donna Daughter was feeling very Prima-Donna-ish due to lack of attention and being deemed the pest, [...]

Second Son and Oldest Son sharing Second Son’s iPod and creating a mix CD. It was fun sitting here at my desk letting them think I wasn’t paying attention. I caught them both by surprise when I said, “Hey, look at this, you two,” and snapped the picture.
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Yes, I know Second Son has eyelashes to die for, but what strikes me even more is that the white jacket with the fur-lined hood is actually Prima Donna Daughter’s winter coat. Now, YOU KNOW if I had told them I wanted to take pictures of them wearing her coat so I could put them [...]

Second Son and Prima Donna Daughter, ages 7 and 1, respectively, in the bathtub at Grandma’s. Skinny, not as in scrawny, but as in no clothes. Don’t worry, this is about as skinny as this blog gets.

2007 was a banner year for Second Son. Back in January, he made the homepage of the school district’s website for being nominated and selected as a People to People Student Ambassador.
In May, he and his girlfriend (pictured here) went to the 8th grade prom (their first dress up affair) and then graduated to High [...]

I only WISH I appeared this calm, cool and collected to my students this morning!
It was…one of THOSE mornings…
I had woken up at 5:30am, glanced at the clock, and happily turned over and burrowed back under the covers for another hour of slumber.
Not 30 seconds later, I swear, I opened my eyes to: 8:28 staring [...]

As luck would have it, I missed posting yesterday on the last day of NaBloPoMo. In spite of that, though, my NaBloPoMo mission was accomplished: I got back into the swing of blogging, in spite of the continuing drama that I let pull me away. And I made some new blog friends - even better!
Today [...]

Ok, it’s a Monday, for real. I contemplated whether I should sub today and finally ended up accepting a job at the middle school.
Between first and second hour, my cell phone rings. I open it up to see who is calling and at just that moment, I drop it. It breaks into two pieces (as [...]

Today I woke in a grateful mood. Ironic since that is so NOT the mood I went to sleep in last night. I got up to find Prima Donna Daughter at her computer playing/singing Christmas songs. When she saw me coming into the living room, she jumped up, ran to me and hugged me and [...]