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. […]
Archives for 2010
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 […]
Travel at the Yummy Mummy Club
November 3, 2010 by 2 Comments
Hi everyone, I have a little something up at Yummy Mummy Club, and it’s all about travelling with NO TECHNOLOGICAL EQUIPMENT. Yikes! Check it out, pretty please, and if you could leave a comment I would be forever grateful! xo
Whew! It’s November!
November 1, 2010 by 4 Comments
Did you survive Halloween? Honestly, I wasn’t 100% sure we were going to make it through the day yesterday. The kids were completely wired with Trick or Treating on the horizon. At one point they were running laps around the house – which is not an uncommon occurrence, really – and I thought they were […]
Marital Strain
October 28, 2010 by 9 Comments
You just know with a title like that it’s going to be a juicy post. On Modern Family – do you watch Modern Family? It’s very funny. – the other night, Claire was looking through the Tupperware and wondering how or why the containers and lids get separated. Phil replied, built-up resentment, financial issues, met […]
