1) I’m going on a girl’s night away tonight, and I seem to be experiencing equal parts excitement and guilt over leaving.  I texted my husband “I miss you” and he replied “Already. It’s just a regular day.”  Yes, it was ten in the morning and yes, normally it would be eight hours until I […]

My friend Nan came across the “50 Ways To Live Life To The Full” on the Daily Mail site and described her reaction to each of those 50 ways.  I don’t know, I kind of feel like I’m living life to the fullest right now, given that I had popcorn for lunch instead of my […]

The kids are back at school this morning, and Mark’s class is in swim lessons this afternoon – the first time ever one of my children have had school swim lessons not in the dead of winter.  It’s a beautiful, sunny day; only a few tenacious and icy snow spots are left in the shady […]

I know, it’s January 2.  I meant to get this post out on Monday.  So I’m a few days late and a dollar short, but I have a good excuse – I rang in the New Year by sleeping.  I had what I had – optimistically, it turned out – thought was food poisoning but given […]

Because they have been taken down!  Today, taking advantage of the reprieve from minus twenty degree daytime highs, my husband and I took the outdoor lights down.  Well, actually, he took the lights down.  I held the ladder and shuddered as little frozen bits of leaves fell from the eaves and got stuck in my […]

Yesterday, I was going to write a post.  It was going to be lighthearted, and would describe the rabbit hole I fell down while looking at old photos of the boys, ending up watching old home videos and crying in the manner of Clark Griswold locked in the attic.  “Mama go yo-yoga!” impossibly chubby, not […]

“I have a feeling you’re not going to do well when the kids leave home,” my husband said to me today.  My parents took the kids to their place at the lake, and when they left the dog – who is me, but in canine form – flopped on the floor, dramatically whimpering.  The dog […]