Finding Yourself Despite Yourself

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Summer has come to an end and once again, I face another battle with the school system over the free and appropriate education that Mira is entitled to. She has missed the first 3 days of the third grade because I refuse to lay down and let them do whatever they want with my [...]

With the recent release of Toy Story 3, Levi and Bodie have gone bonkers for Buzz. Levi is so passionate about Buzz now that he’s willing to consume foods he’d never ever touch simply because they are branded with Buzz (hello Mac n Cheese… yeah my kid is WEIRD, he won’t eat Mac N Cheese). [...]

I caught Bodie knee deep in trouble and silly me asked what he thought he was doing.

“I do wike dis Mama, you see? You see dat?”

Yes, yes, my son, I see. It was my fault for asking.

But things were so far gone when I found him that it seemed silly to holler and [...]

When you see a larger then your family out and about, what do you think? Do you assume they are on assistance? Do you assume that they must be crazy bible thumping lunatics? Do you think that they must be too stupid to figure out how to stop? Do you assume that they desperately need [...]