"At this point, child protective services likely need to be involved. If SIL didn't attempt to stop BIL from leaving with the child when he was impaired, she's not safe with either parent without intervention. "
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My third grader is being a drama llama about. . .
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Spam, in the home improvement section.
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- About Me:
- A foul-mouthed June Cleaver. A well-read Peg Bundy. A cultured Okie. Finder of lost things.
Mom to GirlWho, born August, 2002. Wife to DaddyWho.
- What's something about your kid(s) that makes you happy?
- Her fearlessness and resilience.
- What's your most recent kid-related public humiliation?
- I'm the one who can be counted on to provide the public humiliation.
- What about contemporary parenting culture pisses you off the most?
- Changes daily.
- Who were you BEFORE you became a parent?
- Well-rested, crazy driver, skinny.
- What are you nerdy about?
- Food. Grammar and punctuation.
- Favorite music/books/TV/movies:
- I'm fickle - my tastes change often, but I have a few perennial favorites.
music - Gram Parsons, Townes van Zandt, Jeff Buckley, The Cure.
books - 100 Years of Solitude, Jitterbug Perfume, Still Life with Woodpecker, American Gods, The Poisonwood Bible, Franny and Zooey
TV - we have been cable-free for a year! The last show I really loved was Dead Like Me. We do watch DVDs of Futurama often. Probably too often.
Movies - Bedknobs and Broomsticks, the Bourne Trilogy, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Darjeeling Limited
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Ermagerd! Knee Surgery!
Posted on February 26, 2013 at 1:37pm 10 Comments 0 Likes
Not mine. DaddyWho's. His knee has finally, totally, crapped out. The screws in his knee are digging holes in the bone, and his knee is now damaging his femur. It has hairline cracks at the bottom of it, which I imagine feels awesome. So he's having the whole damned thing replaced on April 15.
My arm/shoulder/elbow is still all busted, and he has a bum leg. Between the two of us, we could probably assemble one complete, functioning, human with a few spare parts.…
ContinueFun with genetics
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 7:28am 13 Comments 0 Likes
Well, it's official, GirlWho has Ehlers-Danlos. Yup. Having her diagnosed as a child should hopefully prevent her from being in the position I'm in, and it seems that she's not quite as hypermobile as I am, which is a good thing. She will get modifications for PE under a 504 plan. I'm not sure how that will work yet.
I'm glad we followed our gut instincts and kept her out of gymnastics and soccer - she's supposed to stay out of contact sports and she's to avoid bearing her…
ContinueMy mother, the jailbird.
Posted on July 18, 2010 at 3:24pm 9 Comments 0 Likes
Sweet mother of God. My mother has been hauled off to jail. Turns out she spent the night there a few weeks ago, too. It seems this latest trip is because she blew off a court date for the previous stay. No one is going to bail her out. She's burned those bridges. My youngest brother was her last cash cow, and she was draining his checking account without his permission, and overdrawing it. He is leaving, hopefully for good, to stay with his dad's family out of state. I have a policy to never,… Continue
Tornado Alley
Posted on May 3, 2010 at 9:36am 6 Comments 0 Likes
It always feels strange to not be home, in Oklahoma, on two days of the year. The first is April 19. The second, and the one on which the strange feeling is the most compelling, is May 3. Maybe because it's more private, more of a local thing.
May 3, 1999 is the date of the F5 tornado that leveled several communities, killed 49 people, and changed the way tornadoes are classified and measured. Actually, there were 140 some-odd separate tornadoes that day, but it's the big…
Continue I may be nomadic . . .
Posted on April 22, 2010 at 9:00am 7 Comments 0 Likes
. . because I'm itching to move again. I like it here, but damn it's expensive. I can't see trying to buy a house here. DaddyWho made the final cut for a job in Minnesota and also in Miami, where I really don't want to live. But he's also on the short list for a job in San Antonio. I've lived there twice, and bitched the whole time. I used to have to drive DW to his appointments and surgeries there. I was heavily pregnant there, in late summer. Not great memories. But I'm strangely excited…
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"We have what we call snack dinner usually once a week. Usually it's hummus - either bought or homemade- whatever kinds of cheeses we've got hanging around, apples, oranges, carrots, pepper slices, crackers, and a sliced meat of some kind.…"
"I cruised by their website, and kids under 5 are not permitted. I'm not sure how they police that, though. A baby is obviously under 5, but it would be harder to tell with your child. He will have to have his own ticket. I'd be more…"
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Also, will you put your red lentils recipe on the Recipe page? I never actually made it, but I do have some red lentils...
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