For all you sicko's out there, there

Yogi Tea.

If you feel a cold coming on, the echinacea support does work.

Then again, so do Zigg Lozenges. For the longest time, Lee would not take the friggin lozenges because he thought they were just cough drops, even though I repeatedly told him they were ZINC to get rid of or reduce a cold. It's like the dude doesn't believe me.

He says I don't listen man. He's off in his own little world too.

Yes you can be too much like someone. He and I even dress in the same color scheme. When we were dating, we'd come to work dressed in the same colors and people would make fun of us. On casual Friday's, we'd come wearing jeans and the same color sweatshirt/shirt and people would again make fun of us.

Like we meant to people.

Of course, now that I'm pregnant and huge, we do not dress at all alike.

My feet are cold. And crampy. I have very straight toes. Non bendy toes. Aside from the second to the last. It bends back sorta far, like it's "double jointed" or whatever. So Catherine's toes ALL do the super bendy thing. She bends them back and I can't watch because if someone did that to most of my toes, they'd break and since I do have a habit of doing the Once Yearly Toe Breakage, it makes me feel funny.

Hey parent/teacher conferences went well. The kids are in on the conferences and actually in Gia's class, the kids run the conference. Cath's was first. There a big huge fat problem with one particular girl in the class, who happened to be at Cath's party a week ago. In some ways, she's 10 years beyond her fellow 5th graders. This is scary. How a kid that young can be so troubled. She really started a sort of hate-movement against the teacher and has dragged a lot of kids into it. Saw it first hand at the party. Lee found it disturbing as well. So I wasn't being hypersensitive.

So Mrs. O, Cath's teacher, brought it up and told Cath that she knows that she's a great kid and that she's above all of that. Cath has never said one bad thing about Mrs. O and even at the party she didn't join in when the one girl was making bad comments. I told Mrs. O Cath and I were having this very discussion in the car. Cath had told me that even though she didn't join in with the Mrs O Bashing, it was hard to ask the other kid to stop. Mrs. O told Cath that if she didn't ask the other kids to stop, that was ok, it wasn't as if Cath was betraying her in any way. She just wanted Cath to know that if she felt unsafe or intimidated, that she can speak up.

Apparently that's been going on too, some intimidation stuff on the playground with the Girl in question. And on the way home Cath spilled her guts telling us she was glad Girl in Question wasn't at recess because she was making kids do a lot of things they really didn't want to do. She's also pressuring them about boy stuff and that's just not cool. I know at this point my girls aren't that kind of interested in boys and that's ok. There's lots of time for that.

So anyway, we got that out of the way and got to Cath's self eval, which was good. And on her math test using concepts I'm not even understanding, she got a 4, the highest grade. It was impressive. She's always stressed about math so it was good to see she's got a good understanding of what's going on.

Ex was there and pretty much tuned out the first part of the whole conference and wasn't all that friendly. Lee showed up at the tail end because he was carpooling and the co-worker very nicely dropped him off at school so he could be there for at least Gia's. But it was nice that he got to be there for the last few minutes of Cath's.

Onto Gia's conference, which was great too. She's doing good with her times tables and wanted to save her "10's" for fun. 10's are fun.

She also showed us her keyboarding skills and that kind of thing.

On the way out, we saw the girl's 2nd grade teacher, Mr. E and he asked if things went as good as usual with the girls conferences. He's a great teacher.

I like all the teachers.

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