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I don’t know about you, but I always feel like, after a long hia­tus on this blog, I have to have a “re-entry” post to kind of segue back into blog-life.

Grem­lin was fed after mid­night: After a very scary asthma attack, my youngest son’s doc­tor finally agreed that despite what the tests were say­ing, he does in fact have asthma and he has food induced aller­gies. For a 7-year-old I actu­ally think he’s tak­ing the food thing pretty good. He knows what eat­ing the wrong thing can do to him and he doesn’t like how that feels so that helps. He’s just now show­ing some signs of frus­tra­tion, because he has to stay away from pump­kins, corn mazes and hay. He can’t have reg­u­lar candy so that puts a damper on trick-or-treating also. He’s such a lit­tle trooper though. He said he still wants to go trick-or-treating, but he’ll just pass his candy on to other kids after­wards. I could just pinch his lit­tle cheeks right off!

Old­man is swing­ing his cane: “I don’t know what hap­pened this past sum­mer, but every­one got so mean between 4th and 5th grade, Mom!” Old­man is hav­ing a bug­ger of a time in 5th grade this year. Rid­ing the bus has been the worst, but he’s deter­mined to stand his ground and con­tinue to ride it any­way (even if it meant a cou­ple of “tiffs” with a bully). The sto­ries he comes home with about bul­lies just about sends me over the edge. I was watch­ing a piece on 20/20 about bul­lies and this one pro­fes­sional men­tioned a big prob­lem is kids aren’t taught how to be kind any­more.  It sounds so basic, but it does makes so much sense. This mama-bear is hav­ing a hard time not want­ing to stran­gle a few par­ents and school leaders.

Work­ing 9 to 5: On Octo­ber 1st, my com­pany, GT Media Ser­vices, bought a locally estab­lished media/marketing com­pany, Bound­less Cre­ative. I used to work there sev­eral years ago and am famil­iar with their mis­sion. They con­cen­trate mainly on main­stream media and I’m excited to be able to bring new media into the mix. It’s def­i­nitely kept me hop­ping and I love that!

Phew…glad I got that all up to speed. Now I can get back to writ­ing like a nor­mal blog­ger.