So today I wrote my first legitimate sick note. And I was stumped.
 
What is a sassy mother supposed to write? The few times I had written these for myself as a teen (I was one of those over-achievers who missed so much school for the NINE MILLION activities I was in, no teacher could [...]

 
The other day G came home from school, pointed to my eye and said,
 
“Mama, that’s your iris!”
 
Another day he was singing some sort of Spanish song under his breath (or what I assumed was Spanish–who knows, since I am so sadly unilingual).
 
This is progress!
 
I am so happy that he is going to school and actually [...]

 
So, my deadlines used to be driven by FDA initiatives or by a clinical trial that needed to start ASAP or by a medical journal’s editorial team. Not anymore.
 
Oh no. These days my major deadline is snack time.
 
That’s right. G’s snack time at school.
 
When we originally decided to put him into this “full-day” preschool [...]