Will write for yarn.
Overheard at bedtime tonight:
E: Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle bells,
It’s not much fun to ride and walk a sleigh tonight
HEY!!!!!!!!
Me: hahahahhaaaahahahhahahah
E: Why are you laughing?
Me: Because you are soooooooo cute.
E: Oh. Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle bells…
My sixteen month old baby B has started babbling!
Doesn’t sound much like news, does it? But he goes around laughing and talking all the time, and even repeats back to me the words I say to him. While looking me in the eye.
My four year old E never did these things. At some point, his [...]
In the middle of the night, when two of my three children cry for me and cling to me, full of need and unable to sleep, I sometimes say, “Shut up!” I have yelled at them to go to sleep. I have left them crying so I can go to another room and kick things [...]
Well, okay. It wasn’t actually my homework. It was a card I wrote for an exceptional friend, a handwritten, beautiful card, that I was so excited about mailing and having her receive. I thought the postman had taken it away, but then I found the envelope, muddy and chewed, beside the front porch.
She saw the [...]
I am afflicted. I suffer from an assortment of letters that include: ACDBPODDD. In no particular order. I’m sure if I was feeling attentive or ambitious I could cobble together a word from all those letters, but I think there are too many disorders and not enough vowels. If I include those maladies belonging to [...]
I sit typing and
a giant moth flies by me, the wind of her wings
going just past my ear
like a breath
to light
on the dirty fixture above.
A cricket sings in the next room while
lady bugs amass on the streaky, smeary window.
Tendrils of ivy
poke through the 100 year old gaps in this house,
easing in to gradually steal away [...]
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