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  • Yesterday, my little girl travelled to the airport, boarded a plane to Dallas, and then to Minneapolis, and I wasn't there! Her grandmother accompanied her. Have you ever tried to focus on work when your offspring is in …

  • the field trip

    Two weeks ago, I took a ride on a bus with a bunch of twelve year olds. I'd had three and half hours sleep, following my son's graduation party. We were scheduled to arrive at 6:15 a.m. to board the bus that would take…

  • band geek?

    The band concert that I thought was out of town, requiring a 6:00 am drop off was actually in town with a 6:15 pm drop off. Since the concert didn't start until 7:00, I thought I'd hang out and read in the car. Unfortu…

  • confessions of shopaphobic

    On Monday morning, Reagan called me on my way to work to tell me that she really needed dress clothes for her band concert on Tuesday. After asking her whether she'd known this on Saturday (because that would have been…

  • a ticking time bomb

    Yesterday afternoon, after the chest x-ray, the echocardiogram, the 12 lead EKG, the blood pressures on all four extremeties, and exams by two doctors, the cardiologist came back and and said: "It would be nice if these …

  • how to incite a mommy hissy fit

    I am not proud of the hissy fit that I threw last night. I have only the following evidential items with which to defend myself: I worked all day (do I need to go further?) I had three errands to run on my way home, and…

  • middle school

    Thursday night was Reagan's 7th grade "orientation". She had come home with a registration packet and note about this event at the beginning of the month. She carefully selected which electives she was interested in taki…

  • Monday's Child is Fair of Face

    Reagan just came home last night after spending a whole week at her grandma's. We missed her like crazy, and not just because the trash piled up. She's just one of those sunshiney, happy people who everyone likes to hang…

  • piling it on

    I took Reagan for her well check up three weeks ago. The doctor heard a murmur. She went for an echocardiogram last week. She has a thickened, deformed aortic valve. I understand the words but have no prognosis. All I ca…

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