About a month ago, M came home from school saying some surprising things. In addition to her speshul snowflakedness, I also talked to her teacher about what M said in this conversation:
M: Mama, I don’t like Jason*. He is in my class an I don’t like him.
Me: Why not?
M: He has a mustache.
(I will confess, [...]
Ok, so there is no way to write this without sounding like I am talking about my prechus little speshul gifted snowflake. But since I have discussed our angsting over M’s school here before, I am going to go into a bit of detail about it anyway. Mock me if you must.
I had my first [...]
Just a quick kid update because this week has been very tempestuous and I am tired of thinking about it.
M is slowly learning to write.
It is an extremely frustrating process for her because her receptive reading is very good, but her handwriting and spelling are not. (No surprise as spelling and fine motor skills are [...]
I was preparing myself to write a political post. Not one about the current bruhaha, just one about a political topic near and dear to my heart, but now it must wait. Right now, there is a minor school adjustment crisis that is taking up my brain space.
I freaking KNEW lunch was going to cause [...]
We just returned from Meet the Teacher day (aka check out all the kids and their parents day).
The BAD: When we got there, we got the news that M’s kindergarten teacher will be out of school on maternity leave until mid-november. This is a huge bummer to me. When I was in kindergarten, my teacher [...]