What's New?
It'a high time for another happy edition of What's New. Why? BECAUSE my kids are finally seeming to be healthy! For like, two whole weeks now. After about ten weeks or more of sickness, I can't tell you how grateful I am for this new change. There have been pockets of happiness and peace during this long, drawn-out ordeal, but don't let my cheerful blogging voice trick you into thinking I'm some highly competent nurse-maid. For instance, in a meeting about a month ago with my kids' principal -- no, they weren't in trouble, I had requested it to ask some questions about curriculum, et cetera -- I blurted out, "I hope you don't think I have Munchausen by proxy , given how much time they have missed. BELIEVE me, my strong preference is to have them all happily at school." She looked stunned that I would even suggest such a thing, and I realized I probably sounded Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. And so I came home and cried some angsty tears be...