Birthday joy for Prof. X
My husband’s birthday is this week. And a celebration of his pretty sucky life right now isn’t exactly what he wants to do. So I took the liberty of emailing 100 close friends and family…
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College Interviews
I’m not sure if I wrote this same post last year, but even if I did… it needs to be said again. Today I am delousing the house (thanks kids!!!)ย and setting up an interview for…
Multiple Choice
You wake up at 5am to find your husband (still up) writhing in pain with tears in his eyes. Do you: a) call an ambulance b) ignore (he’s totally faking) c) gently kiss him on…
Social-Pragmatic Skills for Bloggers and Blog Readers
Something pretty amazing has happened in the last year or two. Speech Pathologists have started blogging! They have brought a huge wealth of knowledge, advice, and (my favorite) creative treatment ideas to the entire world…
Conference scheduling disaster. Again.
For whatever reason, my kids’ school has an extremely inefficient method of signing up for conferences. Conferences which are almost 2 months away I might add. Yesterday was my kids’ back to school night (yep,…
Lunch time woes
September 2012 Dear SLP at my children’s school, I’ve spoken with you in the past as I am the SLP at a school down the street from youย and we’ve shared kids before. I also happen…
1st week of school
I hate the first week of school. There. I’ve said it. While all my other teacher friends are writing sentimental statements about how excited they are about students coming back and how fresh and eager…
Sometimes we need visuals at home too!
Part of the pain The biggest pain regarding my cast and crutches is that I am unable to do almost anything around the house. Pick up trash? Nope. Load of laundry. Nuh uh. Get new…
Can pain and the future ever go together?
My children finished school for the year today. Professor X has to solo parent until I am done next week. What will that mean? Today’s post is taken directly from Professor X’s status update a…
It’s not that I’ve forgotten
…how to blog. It’s just that since my last post I’ve had 34 IEP meetings, 2 permissions to test, 2.5 all-day trainings, 1 personal day (to attend a field trip with my son), 6 in-building…
Take your child to work day
Disclaimer: This post contains Amazon affiliate links. After haggling with my principal, I was approved to bring my 8 year old son to work with me on Thursday. This being an elementary school, and…
PSBD
Disclaimer: This post contains Amazon affiliate links. I’ve had quite a productive spring break! I painted a room. Sick of the pink shade my last beige paint turned out to be. Attended an off-Broadway musical….
I Speak For The Trees
I figured I should proselytize my eco-green-crunchy-granola-NorthWest ways to the rest of the world… I haven’t used paper towels in my home for almost eight years. And napkins? Same thing. (Okay, except for the kids…
A Working Mom’s Cleaning Schedule
As you can possibly imagine, I’m a wee-tiny-itty-bit busy. Although my husband is technically a “Stay at Home Dad”, his chronic illness/disability keeps him in bed most of the day. So we live on one…