mugshots vs. facebook photos.

Sadly, some of those folks looked better in the mug shots than their profile pics.

That mug shot site is mesmerizing.

That mug shot site is mesmerizing.

Isn't it? I can't get over it.

Sadly, some of those folks looked better in the mug shots than their profile pics.

Yeah, but the ones who didn't, WOW.

And what about the ones, usually women, who look almost as posed and composed in the mug shot as the profile pic?

don't you think they are almost always DUI (or related)?

Things that break my heart:

I just discovered that Charlie is afraid of hangers.

Whitefonted for a few people, just in case.

Thank you for your kind words. Grace is pretty amazing and I'm super proud of her. It's just... she's pretty broken too. She has a lot of work to do still. She doesn't understand math even a little - I mean, we're going to have to learn it all through rote. The concept of addition is beyond her. She will NOT work independently so in her next IEP goal, we'll need some stuff about independence too.

It's just hard because the dreams you have for who your child is going to be... well, I sort of have to come to peace with abandoning that. And it's hard. Yes, I know most parents face that reality, but to think that she will need people constantly is just overwhelming. Unless I take it day by day. Which is all I can I guess.

Plus work. GARGH. Everything is hard at work because on the one hand I have colleagues I'm trying to protect from themselves and on the other I'm pulled thin. I need to figure out what I can willingly give up next year because I can't do another year like this. Plus we have accreditation next year, and I've been asked to co-chair the accreditation committee (and by asked, I mean, my other co-chair was told we'd been assigned to do it).

I am the only teacher who teaches all kids in a single grade PLUS an extra class of other kids in a different grade. I cannot handle it.

That is much too much, Kat.

Oh, Lee. That is sad.

I just got spam trying to sell weather vanes. I'm not sure why that seems more strange to me than the spam that promises to increase my member.

Oh Kat, that sounds completely overwhelming. No wonder you are stressed.

Has Grace had any success working on math in more concrete ways, like with blocks and geometric shapes and such? I can imagine it being frustrating, what with Noah being a math brainiac.

I am finally safely esconced in my hotel just a couple of miles from Weeki Wachee Springs, after 15 hours on the road.

People who talk about northern Florida in derogatory fashion have clearly never travelled through Alabama to get to it. After hours of nothing but shacks, abandoned gas stations, rural churches, and Chick-fil-A restaurants, when I crossed the border I was greeted by:

• a well-kept modern welcome center that gives out free orange juice
• a radio station playing Kelly Clarkson amongst all the ones with conservative talk shows and gospel music, and
• the clouds literally parting to welcome me with this sight.

I felt like one of the Israelites entering the Promised Land.