the interview continued…citizens jeans and a weekend with croup
A continuation of the self interview..my excuse, the BIL in town for the weekend, my oldest child is sick with fever for the third consecutive day and my body is weary from the crushing amount of yard work we accomplished yesterday…
You’ve got another weekend of house guests. You’re getting good at this by now?
As I […]
i wanna have your babies
I’m just throwing this out there for your review.
Head on over and check out Natasha Bedingfield’s video of “I Wanna Have Your Babies.”
I’m loving the relentlessly upbeat tempo of this song and the video is just, well, bizarre. Sasha Frere-Jones of The New Yorker agrees that this song is “possibly the freakiest thing on pop […]
posioning by chips ahoy
Almost every day at my house we have a discussion about food; a loud discussion with tears and defiance and barbed accusations. Because, according to my kids, they are the only unfortunate children in their entire elementary school of six hundred children that are sent to school with ‘healthy snacks’. It is their observation that […]
daybreak
No matter how early I get up, how quietly I creep down the creaking stairs and glide into the office in my slippered feet to grab a few minutes of solitude, I am followed by a child who NEEDS something. Today I thought I was beating the hordes by rolling out of bed at 5 […]
i’m happy for you, really, i am
As far as blogging goes, the last few weeks have been kind to me. Amanda over at Tumble Dry and The Wink tossed me a Thinking Blogger award (see the pretty button over there at the right, it’s my first one and I’m inordinately proud of it) and One Plus Two included me in her […]
together at the top of the world
It’s so hard to write when the weather turns fair. All but the most frivolous of thoughts find no purchase in my spring-sick brain. Back in high school and college (an eternity past) this same fever would paralyze me each Spring.
But somehow my G remains devoted to her craft, dashing of bits of verse and […]
revised goals and good intentions
Tag - I’m it. Ron Davison from R World has asked me to expound on five goals I’ve failed to take seriously. And, after some soul searching, I’m sad to report that not only don’t I have any goals I’ve failed to take seriously, evidently I forgot to have any goals at all, fulfilled or […]
no such thing as a bad life, only bad days
At long last, it was finally that exquisitely warm and sunny day we’ve been pining for, but I’ve had better.
First BB’s daughter broke her arm while playing on our zip line. I babysat for her three siblings while her Mom carried her to the ER. They spent four hours awaiting treatment (and I think MY […]
family circus
It’s just so hard to impress the children these days. In the age of on-demand, wireless, high def, fiber optic, all-out extraordinary home entertainment, it’s just impossible to thrill them.
But oh, how I tried. Today was the most expensive two hours of their little lives. We rode into town for The Big Apple Circus […]
to share or not to share
When surfing the blogs this morning I read Allison’s touching post on sharing the VA Tech tragedy with her three small children. While her readership applauded her honesty and her candor with her children, I couldn’t help but feel resolve to keep my own kids sheltered from this news. While I rarely watch cable or […]
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