At 10:20 this morning my office phone rang. The area code was local but the number didn’t ring a bell. That’s never a good thing. That kinda call means only one thing – one of my kids has fallen ill and must be collected without delay. Today was the Bear’s […]
***Thursday P.M. Update*** The pearl is in the wiver! Umm, yeah. The Bear is back at school. She and we have survived field trip numero uno. This was the first day of many more to come of our little girl venturing out into the world with nary a family member […]
Last week was graduation week. Not for the Bear, but for her older classmates – those lucky souls who, thanks to the timing of their birthdays, will be 5 years old before September 1st. They are moving on to the big K – Kindergarten. The Bear was not pleased. She […]
tick, tock, tick, tock…time to pee! Since the Bear’s negative UTI results last week we have had her on a strict 2 hour pee regiment and guess what? It’s been working, magnificently actually. She tries every couple hours at home and wears a watch at school to help remind her […]
The Bear has been working through her new emotions, those of no longer being the constant star of a one-woman show, those of growing older and having additional responsibilities and those of coming to terms with the fact that this childhood thing is a process (for example, one cannot learn […]
Over the past few months the Bear has been having a seriously difficult time making it through an entire day without peeing herself. Her underwear is almost always damp and is far too often soaked through to her tights (remaining concealed under her dress) by the time we bring her […]
New Jersey became one of only three states to offer family medical leave today when Gov. Corzine signed the long-awaited Family Leave Insurance bill today. As I discussed in a previous post, the United States severely lacks the focus on the family unit that other countries, like Canada and most […]
The Bear fell ill this morning, after a weekend of fun with her cousins. She and the Mouse slept through the night (Holy Crap!) but the Bear screamed out at 6am and began throwing up…from the hallway into our bathroom. Yesterday we were in New Jersey for the Kelsey Theater’s […]
