I love my daughter because she's paranoid about missing her TCAPS. ''I can't get sick,'' she says. ''If I miss school, I'm screwed.'' I love my daughter because she fills her agenda with dramatic annotations: I love my daughter because she creates ''remixes'' of characters from various series and writes new stories about them. (i.e. ...

There seems to have been an underlying theme for the holidays, and that theme is Sneakiness. A. started off the holiday weekend by weaseling her way into a shortened school day on Tuesday, the last day of school before Thanksgiving Break. The whole family had been suffering from some sort of ailment over the few days leading up to Thanksgiving, ...