I love books. I love reading. And I want other people to have the chance to read, too. Too many students in this country don’t have that opportunity. We can...
Education
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Nothing’s Ever Easy
That’s my father’s saying. Mine is “It’s always something.” Baguette’s IEP includes bus transportation between home and school. Because she is now able to attend the after-school program (this is...
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Endings and Beginnings
Friday Today was Baguette’s last day at the school she’s gone to for the past year and a half (almost). We fought hard to get her into that school, and...
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So Long, 2016
I wrote 14 posts this year. Sometimes I wonder if I’m still a blogger. What can I say? It’s been a hell of a year. A lot of this is...
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Summer Recap
I haven’t posted in a while. Or much this year at all. Turns out, life’s exhausting. Baguette finished TK in June, and we promptly left for a week’s vacation in...
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Occurrences Of Late
Mr. Sandwich: I’m developing legal arguments regarding why Ariel’s contract with Ursula isn’t binding. Me: Because she’s a minor? Mr. Sandwich: That, and Ursula keeps employing metaphors that Ariel cannot...
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Schadenfreude
I don’t indulge in it often. I think it’s mean. But every now and then, I just can’t help myself. Baguette’s school has a school-wide assembly every Monday. These take...
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Change
Remember when I talked about how routine is important, but disrupting the routine is, too? No? That’s okay. Here’s a link. But you don’t necessarily need to read that, because...
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Milestone
For the past several months, we’ve been working to get Baguette into a certain school with a certain autism program. It’s been an exhausting, nerve-wracking process. After refusing our requests...
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Things Baguette Did This Weekend
I haven’t posted much lately; the past six weeks have been . . . well, let’s just call them “challenging,” why don’t we? We’ve all had a series of minor...