I have a confession to make: earlier this month, I thought of closing this blog down. I thought maybe I should retire it; when I started it in 2008 – 2008! – I was writing about life with two little boys, aged 3 and 4. I was writing about funny and not so funny anecdotes […]
Archives for 2014
Cherry Cherry
December 29, 2014 by 5 Comments
Sometimes, in order to get motivated, one needs to have a period of complete sloth, and that was me last week. I didn’t exercise. I didn’t work. I did the bare minimum around the house. Basically I spent a lot of time on the couch, with a glass of wine and this: Between my kids, […]
No grievances, so I guess it’s time for feats of strength.
December 23, 2014 by 2 Comments
Since the last day of classes, I have collapsed into a puddle of sloth and gluttony. HOO BOY, the last week of school was a long week. No matter how prepared a person may be, there are always some strange requests in the last week of school. On Wednesday, Mark told me that he needed to […]
How To Enjoy The Holidays Without Losing Your Mind
December 16, 2014 by 11 Comments
Is it me or is everyone insane right now? I’m not talking about all the sad things that are going on in the world – I will not talk about them, actually – but I’m talking about regular, everyday people who are so loaded down with forced jollity that they are ready to snap. If […]
Riding the Roller Coaster of Emotion
December 12, 2014 by 1 Comment
So there I was, just going about my day like any other; I was driving back home from dropping the kids off at school, and guess what I found in my back alley: Manny! What have they done to you? For those of you who haven’t been following the Mannequin Saga of 2014, when we first […]
Five Happy Things
December 9, 2014 by 7 Comments
1) It has been unseasonably warm for the past week; the air feels soft, almost spring-like. I’ve been able to let the boys play in the snow after school until the sun goes down (i.e., 4:30) and I’m not even painfully frozen by the time we leave the playground. 2) While my friends and I […]
Clark, that there is an RV.
December 5, 2014 by 2 Comments
Today is not only a no-school day, but it is also a moon day, meaning that I have had a slow, lazy day with the kids, making truffles, roasting squash, and pulling teeth. In the interest of veracity, I should say “pulling one tooth”, rather than giving you the image that I’m spending my day […]
