Barb is so very wise.

{{{Erin}}}

also yay Nate

Barb, first, congrats on the way cool award! Secondly, you always sounded so miserable in Florida; I love reading the happy in all of your posts. It's always there even when you don't mention it.

Nate the Great! That's wonderful.

I know that Suzi's move has also been really good for CJ.

Sometimes you gotta pull out the geographical solution.

Erin, you're doing the lord's work. A freaky, nerdy lord who loves all his Lego lovin' fantasy fans.

How much do I love the idea of Fairy Gothmothers and Summer Camp for Weirdos? (I'll be the off season caretaker! Can we have goats?)

Secondly, you always sounded so miserable in Florida; I love reading the happy in all of your posts. It's always there even when you don't mention it.

You know, Lewis and I, we own our choices. We loved Ohio and made the choice to move to Florida primarily for the kids-- while the last couple of years there wound up really miserable, it was still a valuable time for the kids to be closer to their grandparents. In hindsight, I might not make the same choice, but we did and I do try to see what positives came out of it and one of those things was the fact that the kids are close to their grandparents.

However, that said, the move to Florida was valuable on another level-- we were comfortable in Ohio. We loved it there. And I'm not certain that if we'd remained there, we would have ultimately made the move to Seattle, even though it was something we'd dreamt about doing for so many years. Well, I might have, but I'm a bit more adventurous than Lewis-- you generally have to give him a good reason to entertain such drastic change. It was the utter misery in Florida that prompted the change, so from that standpoint, I can't be sorry about it. It was what we needed to do at that time and it ultimately led us here. It's all good.

Barb, that's so exciting for Nate! Excellent news!

I'm glad you moved too; things seem to be going much, much better for you there.

I cannot, cannot articulate enough how much letting me vent is allowing me to not fall (much) to her level, and is letting me blow off steam so I can be rational and keep M in the forefront, and not let my dislike of her and her methods affect that focus.

A freaky, nerdy lord who loves all his Lego lovin' fantasy fans.

I try to live ma life in the Lawd's light...

Pix, that absolutely cracks my shit up. We need t-shirts: "Charter Member of the Ass-kicking Smart Bitches Brigade."

Yay for Nate! Glad to hear he had such a good year.

It's been a good year for buffista sprog, hasn't it? I'm thinking of Nate and mac turning in stellar performances at school.

Yay, Nate! Barb, I'm glad your move has been so good for him.

It HAS.

And both my kids had good years, Isaac had an amazing kinder year. I feel like we've been incredibly lucky with our kids' teachers so far.