Posted in Comfort & Control, Everyday on Aug 5th, 2010 1 Comment »
“DOH!” I’m co-hosting a baby shower tonight at a friend’s house. In the planning, I offered to create a hand made paper garland and bake a dessert, in addition to collecting up other various supplies and running errands for the event. What was I thinking? I didn’t create hand made paper garlands or bake desserts [...]
Posted in Comfort & Control on Jul 31st, 2010 1 Comment »
Tea Party Set By Ruthie I have arrived at that magical parenting phase where I rarely have to get up off the couch. The kids want breakfast? Well make some toast or get a cup of yogurt. Need a drink of water? Grab a stool and get the cup yourself. But this new independence is [...]
Posted in Comfort & Control, Everyday, Getting Things Done on Jul 4th, 2010 2 Comments »
There are better house cleaners than me. This is fact. I’m not in denial of it anymore, either. In fact, I wear this badge proudly. I see it as one of the benefits of approaching my 40′s – I really don’t care what you think about me anymore, because I know I’m awesome. And if [...]
Posted in Comfort & Control, Everyday on Jun 30th, 2010 1 Comment »
There are people in this world who go through life with very few regrets, and I’m not one of those people. My inability to make a decision or figure out what to do next paralyzes me, and I find myself under the constant pressure of wondering whether I should be doing something different than what [...]
Posted in Comfort & Control, Ruthie on Jun 27th, 2010 3 Comments »
We spent the afternoon at a craggy beach earlier this week, and the kids collected two buckets of white sea shells. Mostly they were broken and smooth from the waves and sand, but they were infinite in number – a true delight for the obsessed. Ruthie was focused that afternoon. While Thomas played in the [...]
Posted in Comfort & Control, Everyday on Jun 21st, 2010 1 Comment »
I just spent the entire evening doing nothing – something I long to do almost every minute of every day. The kitchen is a mess, the laundry is unfolded, the bounty from Costco is still piled up on the table. Yet? I sat in my chair all night… doing… nothing. And now that I’m moving [...]
Posted in Comfort & Control, Everyday, Until Death Do Us Part (and to the Death it will be), Video on Jun 18th, 2010 3 Comments »
Bryan played this video for me the other day and prefaced it with, “You’re going to be mad at me for about 5 seconds, but then you’re going to think it’s really funny.” I’ll admit I wanted to be mad, but I know myself too well – I embrace my inner Eeyore and live it [...]
Posted in Comfort & Control, Startup Mom on Jun 15th, 2010 No Comments »
My assistant affectionately calls me the Boss Lady, which I find endearing. “Hey boss lady,” she’ll write in an email. “Here’s the weekly financial update. Did you send out the checks?” Yeah, she may call me Boss Lady, but she’s always telling me what to do. I find that I really like being the boss [...]
Posted in Comfort & Control on May 27th, 2010 3 Comments »
This kitchen trash bag contains all the lunches Ruthie left at school over the last couple weeks that she finally remembered to bring home. I estimate there were at least four lunches, and about ten tupperware containers. Inside those containers were half eaten sandwiches, untouched apple slices, some leftover taco meat, and an unopened package [...]
Posted in Comfort & Control, Everyday, Ruthie on May 10th, 2010 2 Comments »
Mail Man Mail Man do your duty Here comes a woman with an African booty This is what they’re singing on the playground these days while jumping rope. When I was a kid we sang about bubble gum and ice cream, but now it’s about getting laid by the mail man. I once got in [...]
Posted in Comfort & Control, Until Death Do Us Part (and to the Death it will be) on May 9th, 2010 2 Comments »
I’m pretty sure this was the best Mother’s Day EVER. Breakfast at my favorite spot, church, sun, a nap, and time in the garden. It’s how we spend most Mother’s Days, but this year I felt like the party drunk hugging everyone and crying, “I LOVE YOU, MAN!” Everything about this day felt perfect before [...]
Posted in Comfort & Control, Everyday on May 7th, 2010 2 Comments »
I keep thinking that parenting will get easier once the next thing happens – once they’re crawling, once they’re walking, once they’re out of diapers, once they’re in school, blah blah blah – and to some extent this is true. It DOES get easier to fly on an airplane to grandma’s house when no one [...]
Posted in Comfort & Control, Everyday, Learning on Mar 23rd, 2010 2 Comments »
David was a shepherd, but when God looked at him, he saw a king. Sure enough, when David grew up, that’s just what he became. And David was a great king. He had a heart like God’s heart – full of love. Now, that didn’t mean he was perfect, because he did some terrible things [...]
Posted in Comfort & Control, Everyday, Piling It On (and taking it off) on Jan 18th, 2010 5 Comments »
Posted in Comfort & Control, Everyday on Oct 20th, 2009 No Comments »
Today technology is not bowing down to me. In fact, it is quite certainly giving me The Finger. My trick to getting work done in the afternoon is for Thomas to watch a movie, but guess what? The DVD player is crapping out, and for an unknown reason movies won’t play from the laptop. No [...]
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