Look at this amazingly crafty display someone put up in my kids’ school. Seriously adorable, right? I have a thing for felt, I tell ya. Oh! And pilgrims, too! We had a conference with J’s kindergarten teacher today. Also met with a mortgage guy about refinancing. Plus two separate non-illness-related vomiting episodes. Went shopping for … [Read more…]
The dust has settled from the weekend’s family party, and now I’m chugging into full holiday freakout mode. It doesn’t help that someone on Facebook reported that they’d completed all of their shopping and had strung up lights al-freakin’-ready.  I mean, that’s the kind of holiday smugness you just need to keep to yourself. On … [Read more…]
Thanks to all of you who kindly commented or emailed. . . I am doing better, thank you. Not quite normal, but better. And after a particularly wretched stomach bug, the bright side is hopping on the scale when it’s over–woo, hoo! Sure, I am dehydrated and haven’t consumed a vegetable for 48 hours, but … [Read more…]
Okay, first of all? I hate the early-darkness thing. So depressing. And then, snow? I wasn’t ready. In fact, I think that nature should conform to an order of operations in which all of the leaves fall off the trees, and then the snow is permitted to fall. Because now I have a disgusting, soggy … [Read more…]
I mentioned the other day that J was gathering up Halloween decorations, and that’s partly because she was excited to start our Thankful Tree. We got the idea from Family Fun, and it’s a simple, cheap craft that’s become an annual tradition. Basically, you take a tree branch (ours has been re-used a couple of … [Read more…]
We met my new baby nephew yesterday. Super adorable. And I have to tell you, hanging out in the hospital with my little sister, watching the two of them trying to get nursing figured out. . . I don’t miss the Infancy Era. That was really, really hard. Sure, tantalizing glimpses of kid-personality flared occasionally, … [Read more…]
The girls are so ready to move on. J was in such a rush to close up shop on Halloween that this afternoon she briskly moved around the house, gathering up ghosts and witches and spooky paraphernalia with such efficiency that I was beginning to wonder if she might have a future in retail. And … [Read more…]
Fin was buried today in a brief ceremony, comprised of some flower-scattering and a song J made up, the lyrics of which were “Fin, Fin, Fin, Fin. . . .” I would share the tune, except that it was pretty tuneless. I had attempted to press M into playing something on the recorder (it would … [Read more…]
I spent well over an hour tonight comforting a sobbing J because Fin is not looking good. It seems likely that (s)he won’t last more than another day or two. Foolishly, I suppose, I warned the girls that I didn’t think Fin was going to make it. Please: I don’t want advice on how to … [Read more…]
Okay, I had technical difficulties and I’m feeling a little fed up with cyberspace, so I’m slacking off. But if you’re desperate for a post, I just put something silly up on the CBS 6 Blog.
