I am someone who does not like to leave things to the last minute. I like to be organized and on top of things. So, I finish my Christmas shopping in the first half of November, I make and freeze dough for sugar cookies and gingerbread in November, I send all my Christmas cards out […]
November
November 23, 2009 by 4 Comments
November is a dark month. Even when the sun is shining, it is so low in the sky that it is still dark and grey. Every room in my north-facing house is dark, even when the lights are on. This month has been flying by. I can’t believe it is already the 23rd. We are […]
Weekend Update
November 1, 2009 by 4 Comments
1. I purchased 250 candies for Halloween, and lovingly made up twenty little gift bags with an assortment of goodies. If we got more than twenty trick-or-treaters, I thought, I would just give out the mini chocolate bars and bags of Sour Kids separately. The boys headed out to trick-or-treat and I stayed home to […]
Happy Halloween
October 30, 2009 by 2 Comments
Arrrrgh, mateys. If ye are sailing the high seas, be sure to guard ye treasure. There’s pirates about! And if the pirates don’t get you, the dinosaurs will. I was volunteering for the Pre-Kindergarten Halloween party today, and if I was the sort of person to drink during the day, I probably would have a […]
Jake’s Jack-o-Lantern is named Chachi!
October 25, 2009 by 1 Comment
This is, I believe, directly correlated with the event of my brother and his girlfriend (very kindly) babysitting on Friday night, so that my husband and I could go out to dinner to celebrate his birthday. “I’m so excited!” I said to my yoga teacher Friday morning, “We have a date! We only have about […]
Dummy Jimmy Too Tall has a friend!
September 30, 2009 by 4 Comments
Two friends, actually. I wanted to write a nice, thoughtful post today but here is what is on my mind: 1) It’s my dad’s 60th birthday this weekend. I have to run out today and get a gift but he is a man and he is 60. He just doesn’t need anything. I guess it […]
Fall Follies
September 28, 2009 by 3 Comments
So our September summer now appears to be emphatically over, so it’s time for me to put away those t-shirts and bring out my vast array of black, grey, and charcoal sweaters. Yes, I did make a distinction between grey and charcoal. I’m not a huge fan of fall, perhaps because it begins and ends […]
