I am so tired. I sit and dream of taking a nap the baby is sleeping and I just want to curl up nest to her and drift away into oblivion. But I can’t. My other two children are playing outside and it may be just be the teensiest bit […]
Read MoreMonth: June 2007
Too much of a good thing
Can you have too much of a good thing? Well, if that good thing is single origin dark chocolate, 75% cocoa mass, and you are my children then yes, it’s entirely possible to have too much. This morning in a not entirely unprecedented fit of naughtiness the Boy climbed onto […]
Read MoreA tiny funeral
Today the Girl found a baby bird laying in the dirt. It was directly below a swallow nest tucked under the eaves 3 stories up. It was perfectly formed; a miniature beak and tiny little wings and feet and small enough to lay in the palm of the Girl’s little […]
Read MoreReflection
Water runs down his body in glistening beads as he emerges from the pool. Tanned golden skin continuously sliding across the rippling backdrop of taut muscles, every one defined as if etched in marble. He pulls at the bright orange water wings that wrap around his upper arms and shakes […]
Read MoreThe Housedress, revisited
Do you remember when I was lamenting the demise of the house dress? Okay, probably not because I’m the only one who obsesses about things I consider problems needing to be solved until I find a solution. Except for the house dress, I found another person who laments it’s demise […]
Read More6 months
It’s already been half a year since you were born. Why does the time fly away so quickly these days? You can now sit for at least minute before you lose your balance and topple over onto your side. You like to grab at my face and try to eat […]
Read MoreSense and Scensitivity
There’s a terrible smell in my fridge. No one else can smell it but every time the fridge closes it wafts around our apartment. It reminds me of rotten garlic. The last time this happened was last summer and I was pregnant. I asked my Milly to clean it out […]
Read MorePlunge
So I have a shiny new gmail address over there in the sidebar. If you want to e-mail me you now can, and no Charity Grace I still can’t see your address so could you please send me an e-mail? Thanks. So comments are still wide open to anyone so […]
Read MoreWhere my brain has been
I asked Milly to take the Boy and the Girl today so that I can get caught up on some much needed work, like laundry, (I need to walk to the laundromat to get it done) and sorting through closets and getting rid of stuff we don’t need, or don’t […]
Read MoreHelp
Before I became a mother I thought I’d be really good at it. I imagined myself as this patient and gentle person who would always listen to her children and wisely dole out justice and mercy to my adoring brood. Then I had children. I held on to this imaginary […]
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