I'm so sorry, Laura. She was a sweet pup.

Oh, Laura. That is so sad but I am glad she died at home with her family nearby and loving her.

I had just received an order of pill pockets via UPS today. I ordered them by the 6 pack of bags on autoship because we used a lot of them. I asked the person at shelter where I brought her if they could use the tons of prescription meds leftover, and the pill pockets. She said they couldn't give them away, but that their rescue staff would love them. In a rather, don't tell, but we'll use them ourselves voice. So that's good.

That is good. And isn't that always how it goes?

What's double cool on the pill pockets is that I had gone in to return them since they hadn't been opened, and Amazon credited the purchase and told me not to send them back! So happy shelter and I didn't even have to pay for them.

Everyone wins!

So sorry for your loss, Laura and family.

I'm so sorry, Laura.

I'm sorry about Zoe, Laura.

Here's a parenting quandary. It looks like Casper has managed to fail math for the quarter (she could have a miracle if bonus points come through, but I'm not betting on it.) I pulled all the grades out of Powerschool and dumped them in a spreadsheet, and if she'd gotten 100 on the 7 assignments she didn't do (mostly homework online, which you can get a 100 on if you're willing to do all the problems until you get them right), she'd have an 81. I think if she'd done even one of the assignments she skipped, she would have passed.

So that happened. She can pass the year by getting a C in the 4th quarter and a C on the final exam, but the odds of that are obviously not good. If she fails the year, she can do summer school. She won't be able to do her dream summer job if that happens (which she interviewed for but doesn't know if she's been offered.)

My question is, can I as a parent in good conscience take her out of school for two days in May to attend a pop concert in Chicago? It was her Christmas present. She has friends who wanted to go whose parents have said no because it's during the week. I feel like I look like a chump and bad parent if I take her, although we never said anything about going to a concert being contingent on passing math or anything. (Tickets go on sale Saturday, so we haven't yet committed financially to this concert.)

I feel like I'm the one failing, here.

My parenting instinct is that the concert is unrelated to the math issue. It wasn't like it was a reward for school performance. Now, doing what it takes to pull it out before end of year can have a new set of reward/punishment options.