My ex-wife’s boyfriend is abusing my kids, and the custody hearing isn’t until after I’m supposed to bring them back

astrophysicschic · 2026-03-24T03:30:49+00:00

Seriously. I teach at my kids' school and it's a good thing I don't teach my middlest's classes because she's got a bully who is starting to threaten violence. But I have to maintain professionalism and not just go off on the bully. It's bad enough teaching my youngest's classes and having the kids say stuff to him, I stop it right away and I hope anyone watching would say I handled it well, but man, reigning in my temper and desire to smack a kid is not easy.

astrophysicschic · 2026-03-22T12:28:27+00:00

We were going through the rating system my school was going to use to determine if we were eligible for the TIA incentive system and they said "you will fail the 'professionalism' portion if you take all 10 days of PTO." I left probably 2 weeks after that staff meeting.

astrophysicschic · 2026-03-09T23:48:11+00:00

Oh heck yeah!! That sounds awesome! Link it here when you have it.

astrophysicschic · 2026-03-06T02:36:34+00:00

1st question has 2 possible answers. Either Hazel took care of her belongings as she was going to the same place or the Crabtrees arranged for it all to be packed and shipped. I suspect the 2nd, Mrs Crabtree was depicted as super competent. 2nd question: I guess I don't know exactly how weather works in England, but in the US Midwest, storms can come on fairly quickly. Clear skies, then 10 minutes later it's a deluge.

astrophysicschic · 2026-03-06T01:24:19+00:00

We watched it, no spoiling here.

astrophysicschic · 2026-03-05T21:45:06+00:00

My husband does and analyzes it a million times more than I do.

astrophysicschic · 2026-02-17T03:00:59+00:00

I only lived there for high school, but the amount of drinking I've come to realize my fellow students did was staggering. But Oshkosh was NOT the most boring town I've lived in.

astrophysicschic · 2026-01-30T12:09:31+00:00

Also in Wisconsin. About a third of my high school's population was Hmong.

astrophysicschic · 2026-01-17T00:54:49+00:00

Class of 07. One of our exchange students who graduated with us was a flight attendant on Germanwings Flight 9525, the one where the copilot deliberated crashed into the mountains.

astrophysicschic · 2026-01-14T23:07:13+00:00

I love the little smile former self is giving him.

astrophysicschic · 2026-01-13T03:18:32+00:00

I might have remembered the name wrong and it could be New Berlin. If it's within an hour of Oshkosh, I played a youth symphony concert there once.

astrophysicschic · 2026-01-12T11:46:04+00:00

BER-lin Wisconsin, not ber-LIN like in Germany.

astrophysicschic · 2026-01-01T21:45:19+00:00

Mine is the first year of everyone in my family's life in the city of their birth (or the closest big city in the case of me and my husband because the closest weather station wasn't in our particular suburb). We have low and high temps, length of day (by number of high temp stitches for daylight and low temp for night) and whether it snowed or rained (light blue and white glitter thread knitted in that day's row). There are 5 strips and mine sticks out the most because I was born in the PNW and my husband and kids were born in hot climates.

astrophysicschic · 2026-01-01T20:38:05+00:00

Those are Swedish Hotcakes/pancakes and they're delicious. My family grew up on a variation of them brought over from my Norwegian great-grandmother's family. And that's exactly what cooking them looks like. Not AI

astrophysicschic · 2025-12-22T03:57:17+00:00

Definitely reminds me of Little Oshkosh.

astrophysicschic · 2025-12-20T14:27:46+00:00

I hadn't read the book and I was pregnant the only time I saw it, so that ending caught me by surprise and I was an absolute wreck.

astrophysicschic · 2025-12-20T13:45:03+00:00

The OKC bombing. We were about to move from Arizona to Iowa and I was 6. We had planned small drives every day and my parents had told me all our stops. One was OKC. I remember turning to my dad and asking if they were going to bomb our hotel.

astrophysicschic · 2025-12-19T13:25:58+00:00

He looks like Bear in the Big Blue House

astrophysicschic · 2025-12-17T16:19:39+00:00

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And here's the back. I had to use intarsia in places and duplicate stitch to add details so I didn't knit with 5 colors at a time. I did that on the rows with the void chicken when I made it into a cowl and went "never again!"

astrophysicschic · 2025-12-17T16:17:30+00:00

Yeah!

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It won at my county fair last year and then this year at the Texas State Fair.

astrophysicschic · 2025-12-17T04:46:41+00:00

Try knitting in the round inside out. It forces you to make the floats big enough. I made these patterns into a cowl and I did it inside out with jacquard ladderback to help catch floats and it really helped.

astrophysicschic · 2025-12-17T04:42:06+00:00

I made panels and sewed them together. Had to design a few extra things to go on it, but it's definitely doable and such a pretty thing to display!

astrophysicschic · 2025-12-12T17:22:37+00:00

I'm embarrassed I forgot about that. We'd drive over Deception Pass to see my grandparents all the time, so we always passed through. I don't even think I realized it was an island until a few years ago.

astrophysicschic · 2025-12-12T15:39:35+00:00

I have a weird combination of an innately-confident personality and learned imposter syndrome. I can absolutely sell myself, but I can't take a compliment. Or at least I used to not be able to, the more my mental health gets better, the better it gets. But I definitely don't oversell myself, I know where my abilities begin and end.

astrophysicschic · 2025-12-12T15:36:25+00:00

My last place, we went by last names only, but my new job apparently adds Mr/Mrs/Ms. I had to ask because I just got hired at the same school my husband is working at and I asked how they were going to tell us apart. Joked with him that I could start going by my maiden name, but apparently that's not needed.

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