I took this after he finished therapy with the behavioral therapist that he’s begun to see to help him better and more safely learn how to manage outbursts of anger. Bub will throw down for a pizza Lunchable.
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My kids come in the clutch with the steal.
I think we can tell which one stole it because of their position of the head underneath it, happily cuddled.
In which obvious cat is… not obvious.
Since we began to get the tail end of this year’s calamitous winter storm Wednesday evening, this area’s school district actually announced a closure for the following day on Thursday… which is earlier than they have ever announced closures for anything. This school district has the history of either being the last in the entire area to announce closures or delays, not announcing them at all, or waiting until bus drivers and parents try to get themselves to school (or older students try to drive themselves to school) and things start happening to do something like call off the rest of the day. As a child, I used to sit in front of the television crying as every other school district announced closures or delays well ahead of start time. There were times when I was actually being walked out to the car, crying, and my grandmother would rush to the front door to tell us that our district had finally announced something. Sadly, this actually happened a lot as I was a child.
I go by the local district when it comes to what days we have off although bad weather days do not affect us, although I work with the kids during the summer as well on subjects and topics that they need to put an extra bit of time into. Meanwhile, I continue to know that the district — mainly the superintendent — is incentivized by money just like they were when I was a child. Remember when they continually tried to re-open at the start of the pandemic when all of this was raging? Pepperidge Farm certainly remembers…
Bub is beginning to wear masks more consistently!
For some reason this picture took, and then uploaded, huge… but it is what it is and it’s absolutely wonderful!