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My fifth grader, already aware that his homework was going way later into the night than I like, was preparing for Wednesday morning here, which we like to refer to as "Screamy Insane Mommy Losing it with Three Mollassas-ass Whiners-Day."

Wednesdays are when they transition to Dad's house, and we run around gathering the extra stuff they need while they're gone two nights: Nintendo chargers, cleats, blankies, Fluffy I and Fluffy II, books to show Daddy how reading is coming along, homework, Too… Continue

I stayed up late tonight reading Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time, the story of an American mountaineer who stumbled into a remote village in Pakistan after a failed attempt to summit K2. By the time he healed… Continue