My grandpa passed away Friday night. He was 96, and ill, and so it was not surprising or even, to me, particularly sad. I was thankful that we had visited with him a few months ago, prior to his foray into the hospital and nursing home, while he was still at home and still able […]
Archives for November 2010
I WIN!
November 26, 2010 by 10 Comments
I have been having a very stressful and emotional week, and that was even before it became apparent that my stressful and emotional week was exacerbated by the fact that it was coinciding with my monthly stressful and emotional week. You can imagine the tears and chocolate eating that have been going on around here. […]
I just want to eat my COOKIE!
November 22, 2010 by 9 Comments
How was your weekend? It has been painfully cold around here – so cold that I gave the boys the warm fleece pajamas that I was saving for Christmas – and so I spent a large part of the weekend pleasantly bustling around the house, baking things and making batch after batch of cookie dough […]
I Don’t Have Bieber Fever
November 20, 2010 by 4 Comments
This week saw the culmination of all my book fair coordination efforts. I have been living and breathing the book fair. My life has been consumed by the book fair. I was even, unbelievably, dreaming about the book fair. Now the book fair is over and I feel empty inside. Actually I just feel exhausted. […]
Naughty? Or nice?
November 14, 2010 by 12 Comments
Did you know it is 41 days until Christmas? That’s less than six weeks! Squee! I am feeling extraordinarily festive today. We put up the exterior decorations – and by “we” I mean “my husband” – and I have been bustling around figuring out how many family pictures to print for the Christmas cards and […]
Postcards
November 11, 2010 by 6 Comments
Remembrance Day, to me, conjures up images of the World Wars. I think about mothers, like me, with sons who were drafted and never came home and with sons who were drafted and did come home, scarred. I think about the elderly veterans who have seen and experienced unimaginable things, and I think about their […]
Knowing Me, Knowing You, the Barfing Edition
November 7, 2010 by 9 Comments
On Thursday I was talking to a friend, and we noted all the kids missing and sick at the school. “There sure is a lot going around,” I said to her, “I just hope if we get it, we get it right away and get over it before the book fair.” That very night, Mark […]
