With the title of this blog post, I'm not trying to get all philosophical on you. This is what my seven year old told my husband the other night as he was being sent to his room, for crying crying crying. He is not like this at school, but at home he has been crying seemingly incessantly, though he does break for meals. It is generally because something hasn't gone his way. The world is not catering to him, and he chooses to be upset by it. Anyway, I'm trying to teach him that things are just how they are sometimes, and we have to be flexible and resilient. AAUGH! His teacher told me the other day that he is a real sweetheart. I said, "That is so nice of you to say that," instead of what I was really thinking, "Who is this boy masquerading as my son, and can he come live at my house?" Anyway, I've said it before about parenting: If it doesn't kill me, it will make me stronger.
Similar mantra for my chemistry class. Lots of work, but I'm really enjoying it, too. I have a presentation to do tomorrow on Bupropion (Wellbutrin).
Everybody in the class was assigned a different drug to study as part of our organic unit...In knitting news, I continue working on the sleeve...
and the sock...
Can you contain your excitement? First sleeve just about halfway done. Thank you to Linda for your tip about the joining row when the hem is turned up. I decided to go with ribbing on this sweater, but for my next hemmed sweater, I'm going to try your idea for using a larger needle on the row in which the provisionally cast on stitches are worked along with the current stitches to secure the hem.And finally, you know you're in Wisconsin when you could conceivably have the air conditioner and the furnace on during the same week. I've been trying to avoid both for the past couple of weeks. Today they are predicting a high temperature of 87 degrees F.... The only way to make the hot weather go away is probably to put the summer clothes away.....
Have a great Tuesday!
Warm regards,
Laura (YarnThrower)
No no no -- putting the summer clothes away makes it get hot. I'm in mn and we are having the same schizo sept.
ReplyDeleteI noticed I'm washing shorts, T-shirts, thermal underwear, jeans and heavy sweaters in this week's laundry.
ReplyDeleteIt's funny how 45 degrees feels so warm in January or February and so cold in September.
we are the same over her in Ontario. I was so cold on Sunday I had two layers everywhere - no furnace though. One of my gurlz was running around in a tank top and gauchos. Every time I looked at her I got a chill.
ReplyDeleteMy 6.5 year old is just like you're 7 year old - everything is the end of the world and (someone else's fault). I've heard they grow out of it and that it is often caused by the changes that occur at this time of year.
we can only pray this is true.
My kids hold it together at school and explode at home, too. We're having adjustment issues with the new school year. First grade isn't kindergarten. I've been mentally composing a blog-rant about homework in the early grades.
ReplyDeleteNice molecule.
I had the furnace and AC on in the same *day* last week. But I'm sure enjoying the last gasps of summer.
ReplyDeleteYou make a mean benzene ring!! Good luck on your presentation! :)
Oh how cute... black is the carbons, white the hydrogens, the rest i'd have to look up lol...
ReplyDeletePretty good question on your son's part (though, no, it doesn't let him off the hook).
ReplyDeleteIn the long ago days when my dear daughter was in preschool, she was always nearly impossible on the days I volunteered. I had a really hard time believing the teacher's assurance that she was just fine when I wasn't there.
Anyway, lots of empathy coming your way.
It was lovely and autumnal here for a week, cool enough to take walks and need a sweater while we had coffee on the front porch. And now...90 degrees. Ugh. So wrong for September.
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