I had a 9:30am conference call today. I can almost tell you what we talked about. It was a big struggle to keep my eyelids from clasping down over my eyes. This staying up until 3 o’clock in the morning thing is not for me. Maybe fifteen years ago I could have stayed up that late and still have been functional in the morning, but unfortunately those days are long gone for me now. Thank goodness for naps.
As mentioned yesterday, I drove my son to school at 2:30 in the morning; right on schedule for his long trip to Washington …read more

It’s late and I’m tired, but I can’t go to bed. In two hours (at 2:30am) I will be dropping my baby (who has somehow morphed in to this sometimes mouthy, but still lovable thirteen-year-old boy) off at school so he can ride a bus to Chicago and then board a plane to Washington D.C. for a class trip. He and his 8th grade classmates are going to Washington D.C. to see some of the things they’ve been learning about this year in their American History class. They will be exploring the White House and the National Archives, sitting at …read more