Cruel
As parents of elementary aged children, as former second grader ourselves, we all know that second grade homework can be a bitch.
We’ve been there, hunched over our spelling lists, sputtering and wiping away tears as we try, try, try to remember that “grage” is actually spelled g-a-r-a-g-e. Or that “cercos” is, for some inexplicable […]
Exchange Program
So summer’s been on for fourteen days and, already, I have tired of hearing I hate swim team and it’s too hot for tennis and piano lessons suck. It’s a repetitive loop of thankless bitching, constant complaint. Mostly from my eldest, my naughty by nature son. He has deemed this Country Club Summer, all the […]
How do you do it?
How do you do it? You with the kids up your arse and the lawn needing mowing and the bathtub black with dirty footprints? How do you keep on blogging when there’s a child-led high jacking of your Mom-life?
It is officially the first day of Summer in that there is no need to be […]
Summer
G is conducting a countdown. Since the beginning of the week she has been reminding me of the minutes left in the dwindling school year. Each morning over breakfast cereal or an Eggo waffle she declares that, “Today is Monday and that means there are only five more days. How many minutes is that, Mom?” […]
Tears Together
I’ve been holed up in my unhappiness and forgotten that the little lives of grade schoolers continue, with all the angst and despair of that fresh age, around me. Admittedly the majority of life has been occurring somewhat off stage for me as I wallow in my own internal drama and so it was tears […]
At least the athlete
It was Sunday afternoon and from his bedroom Timmy could hear the human silence in the old house, the groan and creak of old floor boards, his parents walking paces around each other, careful to enter the kitchen only when the other was safely in the living room. He thought their aggressive but furtive avoidance […]
Role Reversal
I have taken an eleven hour nap. And you can only imagine how rejuvenated a person who hasn’t really, in any significant or decent capacity, slept in months, can feel after such a slumber.
Last night was inexplicably the night that the toll of cumulative insomnia caught me by the nape of the neck and shook […]
Sports Extravaganza
We are, so far, louse free and so I am committed to changing my playlist to a more cheerful soundtrack. No more Fallen or Orange Sky or Look After You.
Spring weekends are kid-centric and that’s okay, that’s as it should be. With sporting events, dances and the annual festival with cotton candy and nausea inducing […]
Brilliance that surrounds me
I’ve been more optimistic recently. Almost giddy on the scent of spring - the distinctive mingle of lilacs, mown lawns and fertilizer in the air. There is rebirth in the vivid green of leaves finally come to cloak the poor, bare sticks of Winter. And there is the glee in the possibility of throwing up […]
White Cake and Cavities
I know, I know, three days without a post. But it’s all over now…all that up my ass-ocity. I’m busy reclaiming my own slice of routine and normalcy save for the entire right side of my face which is still numb after enduring an excavation and a filling. This morning, when searching the calendar for […]
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