Will write for yarn.
A rerun from last year. Because it’s my favorite.
Ladies, this is the most glorious time of year, the time when you are blessed with a multitude of lovely new sets of pajamas and slippers and wonderfully useful household tools (like, say, a pizza cutter that looks like a shark and a brand new mop head), [...]
I’ve been learning the skill of mindfulness for the last few months. This means being completely focused on the moment at hand, and really doing whatever it is you are doing.
So yesterday while driving home from New Jersey, I listened to The Seanachai, rocked out to D.R.I., Violent Femmes, Bob Dylan and Lou Reed (I’ll [...]
Interestingly, my biggest motivator and friend, Melissa, is also celebrating her 100th post TODAY! I guess we both started taking our writing more seriously about the same time, only she was much more disciplined than I was for a while. Then she started nursing school, and with four kids and a husband to take care [...]
The scene: Walmart, last night. The detergent department (yes, it’s a whole department).
From across the crowded aisle, I hear a voice, “Mommy, here. Here!”
Ethan comes hobbling up to me, lugging an impossibly heavy bottle.
Whether it was the angelic, smiling girl on the bottle, or some other, more subtle message that made him decide what the [...]
Since there is no day of the week that starts with an ‘a’ so I can have an antidepressant day, I will call today “Therapy Thursday.”
It’s a lazy post, because I am trying to figure out what to talk about for tomorrow’s Fiber Friday. But it’s chock full of nuts. Er, I mean laughter.
And also, [...]
As I sit to type this, my 18 month old is being entertained by the 4 year old, who is throwing Boggle pieces at the ceiling vajh./,.
Sorry, one just landed on my hand. Anyway, he is attempting to roll an ‘E’, at which point he will be ‘the winner’.
It’s fine, really, since the Boggle frame [...]
If this stuff doesn’t make it all worth it, I don’t know what will.
First:
Me to 4 year old E: I love you.
E: Why does Elise always want to MARRY me??
Me: Hunh?
E: She always does it and I don’t know why. We’re just little kids!
Me (in my head): I surely don’t know. Why indeed.
On a less [...]
Conversation I had with four year old E. upon his receipt of an invitation to a (girl) classmate’s birthday party:
E: Why did she invite me?
Me: Because you’re her friend.
E: No I’m not. Well, I kind of am. But when Adam and Jack want me, I’m kinda not. But when she wants me…
I go to her.
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…
ring…ring…
Me: Hello?
Daughter: There’s a cow in the toaster. Should I, like, not use it?
Me: Can’t you take it out?
Daughter: No (snarkily). It’s like Operation or something!
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