Enough With the Ganging Agley, Bob.

L officially finished the school year as of yesterday. It culminated in a massive picnic and kids running amok in a small wooded area adjacent to the school garden and outdoor amphitheater. It also culminated in her (sort of) doing a research project, kicking and screaming the whole time. Hyperbole? Maybe. But were there tears? Definitely. Mostly hers. Some takeaways from the whole star-crossed affair:

1. Thank the goddess we do not homeschool. I would be losing it on the daily.
2. My MIL does not understand how research projects work. The one assignment she either...took on or S asked her to take one (I'm unclear on those details) were allegedly her making broad statements about the research topic (monkeys) and having L write this without regard for spacing, capitalization or punctuation. I chose to frame this as an interview. She's too young to worry about citations, so that's good.
3. S may have offloaded that one assignment on MIL without communicating things like: the syllabus and how/where to upload the assignment.
4. I very much do not relate to my kid about all this in the sense that I vividly remember wanting to write essays and things like that as a kid because I wanted to be a reporter, largely because April O'Neill from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was goals. My godfather had me write an article on something or other at age 6 because he got wind of me wanting to be a reporter, and he revised it with a red pen and had me rewrite and resubmit it. Which I did. And was grateful for the opportunity. Or something.

Anyway. Since we've been back, H has failed to regain back to her birthweight which has been the cause of some anxiety. I'm not against supplementing with formula (so we have been) it's more of a dammit I guess we should have been doing that all along and tick tock on the clock motherfucker development is developing and now we have to play catchup. 

The longer I'm alive the more astonishing I find it that humans survived at all. Wasn't FASD just...rampant? Didn't people die in childbirth like...almost all the time? How the hell were kids getting all the nutrients they need (they probably weren't tbh)? Plus all the evil true crime and billionaire cabal shit that was and is happening. Christ. <thousand yard stare>

Okay, bye!