The Type A Conference was my third blogging conference. It was fun and I got to meet and talk to awesome people. There were parties. There was swag. However, unlike other conferences I’ve attended, none of that was the focus. (If you’re looking for a post about the fun side of Type A, well, this isn’t…
learning is fun
I am a bad blogger–SMCS
Okay, y’all. This confession has been brewing for a while now. I am a bad blogger. Because I have a really hard time commenting on all of the awesome blogs I read daily almost daily. I read them, I do. I’m a super fast reader. Just ask the kid who asked me if I was…
My son. The guinea pig
I started writing this post on Sunday night and, well, we know how that turned out. This past weekend I made Joshua a lab rat. A specimen. An experimental subject. (Don’t call the cops, people.) At Joshua’s 18 month and 24 month well-baby visits, I’ve signed the paperwork that allows him to participate in child…
“Blessed are they who have the gift of friends…”
I am blessed, people. Blessed beyond measure when it comes to the friends in my life. Today was a so-so day at work. My freshmen are about to drive me insane. My juniors do not believe me when I tell them that my final exam is notoriously not easy. Neither set of students seems to…
The one where I discover that the only words I know in French shouldn’t be uttered in polite company
When Joshua was a wee tiny behbeh, I would put him on the Boppy pillow in the floor in an attempt to not have to hold him for the seventh straight hour that day and the only song that calmed him was “Cabeza, Hombros, Piernas, Pies.” So I sang it. Over. And over. And over….