5 things for ya

Scabies are finally gone and we’re squeezing the last drops out of summer break over here, while also starting to prepare for the back-to-school blitz. The combo makes for a rather disoriented mother. I do feel myself starting to crave the structure of the school year, but then there’s also the part of me that preemptively misses all this leisuely time with the kids. As crazy as they drive me, I just really like having my lil people around. Still, it’s time to get back in the professional saddle. Out they must go.

And, for that matter, onward we must go. (Wow, what a transition!)

Behold, 5 Bs for you this week:

I hope we’re all paying attention to the Lindsay Clancy case. I hope we’re being forced to face what our society is doing to women, to children. Over at Mad Woman, Amanda Montei does a good job of explaining the importance of this trial on public life.

“Mothers are drawn to this story because Clancy’s story speaks to what so many of us have felt: the thin line between sanity and madness; the knowledge that any kind of cultural justice for women is impossible right now.”