The ADD ate my point
I miss the days when I could lock myself in a practice room and know that no one would bother me for a few hours. As much as I love my sons, they never ever shut up and they are …
Thou Shall Not Play
Give me strength, for if another young male creature in this house utters the word “Minecraft,” I may strangle it with its own entrails. My ears, they ring with words like creeper and mining and server. Soon they shall implode …
2e Tuesday: six steps to parental self care
“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt I actually do not like this quote much, even though it is true. This quote is the rallying cry of …
2e Tuesday: Guest post!
Welcome to the very first 2e Tuesday at Laughing at Chaos! This is a series I’ve wanted to do for awhile, and just have never gotten around to do. I don’t have any more time or brain power now than …
Time for w(h)ine
It is never good to start a Monday by jolting wide awake from a nightmare. One in which you are privy to a nuclear bomb, complete with hearing the blast, seeing the flash, and wondering if the backpack you’re toting and …
How can we go Back to Gifted if we never left?
It’s been seven glorious The Angels Are Singing days since J went back to school. A, of course, is staying here with me as we start our first full year of homeschooling. It’s a new kind of Back to School …
The willful ignorance of giftedness
The summer between my freshman and sophomore years in college I had the pleasure of a tonsillectomy. It was necessary really; after ten years of begging doctors who insisted I didn’t need one, it took contracting mono the previous spring …
Pwned by my spawn
It was bound to happen. When you have a gifted, highly verbal, quirky 11 year old who loves nothing more than to take his mom down a peg, it was going to happen. I got pwned. Last night I was …
I talk a good game
But first a word from our sponsor…me. This evening, after a day of running around completing errands made more irritating by “oh we’re closed in the middle of the afternoon for lunch/training/because it’s Wednesday,” I finally grabbed a kid and …
What could YOU do?
It’s the International Week of the Gifted 2012 and with the corresponding blog tour I’ve seen one amazing blogpost after another this week. Me? End of summer stress-induced writer’s block. I always seem to forget to set things up for …