Mixed Bag

Good news: I submitted paper #2 of the semester on Monday and I'm pretty pleased with it. It felt like a really daunting task and I got it done.

Bad news: I sat down to write paper #3 and immediately thought, "I cannot possibly write this paper." Maybe at some point my brain will stop doing that.

Good news: No tears on Monday.

Bad news: Many tears on Tuesday. Not just kid tears on Tuesday.

Good news: Much-needed rain! Lovely chatty walk in a pleasant sprinkle to see if the first horse chestnuts had started falling!

Bad news: One of the students in this house got so excited about splashing in puddles after lunch that a class was missed. Whoops.

Good news: The teacher was very nice about it.

Bad news: Online learning continues to require a fair amount of parent involvement and a fair amount of student mutual frustration.

Good news: Honors chemistry is not too taxing thus far...

Bad news: ...because here in week 2 they're still taking personality quizzes, identifying their strengths, and preparing to write celebrity profiles for elements.

Good news: One kid got some exercise via a sunset walk around a local lake with swans.

Bad news: Another kid is bummed because I'm feeling like the climbing gym is too risky with these COVID numbers.

Good news: Some of our new perennials are gearing up for another round of blooming and our butterfly garden is a hive of happy activity.

Bad news: Yellow jackets have nested under our compost pile and they're too close to the neighbors' wooden fence for me to kill them with fire.

Also bad news: Since I'm allergic to wasps I'm not enthusiastic about riling up yellow jackets.

Good news: I'm not, like, anaphylaxis-allergic; I'm just, like, needed-steroids-last-time-I-got-stung-allergic.

Bad news: That doesn't actually feel like good news. 

Good news: Tomorrow's NYT crossword awaits, and I am going to solve it and go to bed.

Comments

[Melanie B]

A very mixed bag indeed.

Keep in mind that just because you haven't had an anaphylactic reaction in the past doesn't mean you won't be in the future. Something my daughter's allergist keeps reminding us about and why I keep renewing our epipen prescription even though we've never actually used them. I don't want to be unprepared if the next peanut exposure could be the one that is anaphylactic even though it's never happened in the past.