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I am leaving for China in 8 hours. Our plane departs at 1:40 a.m. I went through a period of brief, yet intense anxiety today on the way hom...

My Mom The woman is a phenomenon. Seriously...  she is the phenome mom ! Really. Today, while Vinny was at school, she picked up balloons  ...

Tiana lately is such a barrel of laughs. I have this feeling that when I come home from China, she is going to be like a completely differen...

Life feels so chaotic right now. I took a beautiful day off yesterday, but by 11:00 a.m. today, I was more stressed than ever. My sub ye...

      In trying to let Vinny enjoy his Spring Break, we have been letting him stay up later than usual watching movies. Tonight, he was watc...

Cousin best friends, round 2 (if she will stop beating him up) They say that those with strong bonds with family members and friends live...

My mid-terms are due tomorrow.  No, I do not mean that my students owe me papers - I mean that my mid-term papers for MY classes as a studen...

Well, this was my second weekend alone with the kids during my Lenten Facebook fast. This weekend was much easier than the last one. I didn...

So, I haven't blogged in a while because I basically don't feel like doing anything. I am so stressed I could scream. Both of my mid...

I miss Facebook. I really do. I keep thinking of sharing adorable things that Vinny and Tiana do or other things that are going on in my lif...

Some of my students don't think that literacy is important. They may not tell me this to my face, but I know this because of how they do...

So, some of you are apparently still reading my blog even though I am not posting on Facebook, because my stats say I still have pageviews. ...

So, I gave up Facebook for Lent. I am allowing myself to read anything that comes in my email, but I am not logging on to check status upda...

It is really hard to be so UNpresent in my kids' lives, like what happens every Thursday. I am extremely fortunate that I am surrounded ...

This weekend has been rich with much-needed down time. Last week overall was really rough on me. We got back from Louisiana late Monday nigh...