Thanks for showing me some love with the comments–free for you, yet priceless to me! Anyway. . . I was walking through Target yesterday, and I stopped to look at the Valentine’s Day cards. We generally craft something up at our house, but I know that the girls appreciate the finery of store-bought.  There were … [Read more…]
Last time I talked about teensy babies, I was urging those just-post-partum mommies to get out there and find their just-post-partum sisters. And you should. But there’s no need to limit yourself. You can take that teensy baby almost anywhere. The summer after M was born, our first year in the Capital District after years … [Read more…]
I love our neighborhood. It’s not just that we can walk to schools and businesses or that the trees stretch over the streets to make those beautiful dappled-green tunnels in the summertime. Although, you know, that’s all awesome.  It’s our freakishly wonderful neighbors. Would you believe that in the last month each of my next-door … [Read more…]
My cute husband and I have this shorthand we use, which is “feel my thirst”. It comes from that classic scene in White Men Can’t Jump in which Gloria (Rosie Perez) is lying in bed with Billy (Woody Harrelson), and she tells him that she’s thirsty. I couldn’t believe that this clip wasn’t on Youtube. … [Read more…]
So, my cute husband keeps posting all of my blog posts to Facebook. Which is sweet, but I was starting to get a little embarrassed, and I said, basically, do you have to?  Then he started teasing me, complete with fluttery, effeminate gestures of indecision and distress: “Oh, I want people to read it! … [Read more…]
That’s right, it’s the month of love. We kicked it off with a little celebration that included a fancy dessert auction, and while I made bids on what would be most delicious to me personally, my ever-thoughtful husband looked at everything and thought, what would most delight my 7- and 5-year-old daughters? The result: Sure … [Read more…]
I’m a little bit concerned that, between all of my whining and all of the talk about skiing, some of you might be nodding off in boredom. Or perhaps the bloggy-voice is starting to sound like Charlie Brown’s teacher, wah-whonk-wah-whonka-wahh. . .  So  I’m introducing the latest project that I’ve been working on. It’s a calendar of regularly-scheduled events. … [Read more…]
The purveyors of spam found me while we were skiing, so I am temporarily moderating comments to ensure that you are not trying to convince my readers that they need bigger, more long-lasting erections. Argh. Meanwhile, I have great drifts of laundry that are piled all over the main floor of my house, and my … [Read more…]
I finally sewed the hole in my down coat! For the past several weeks, every time I sat down in my car too forcefully, a little flurry of feathers would float around the car’s interior. It just felt like such a discouraging way to start a trip–somehow it made me feel quite hefty, like the … [Read more…]
I’ve been going to places like Panera and Joyful Jumpers and seeing all of these people walking around with toddlers who could really use some Capital District Fun. It’s making me a little nutty, yet approaching them feels at least intimidating and possibly freakish. So I made some little cards to put on bulletin boards. … [Read more…]
