Posted in Everyday, Thomas on Nov 16th, 2008 2 Comments »
Thomas asked me if he could go commando tonight -
“I DON’T WANT ANOVAH PO-WUP ON SO I CAN USE THE POTTY WHEN I HAVE TO GO.”
I danced circles around the dining room table when I heard this news. Literally. Just ask Ruthie - she danced with me.
(It’s fun to have an older sibling who [...]
Posted in Everyday, Food & Drink on Oct 29th, 2008 6 Comments »
I almost left it at just this, a picture. Because really, what else needs to be said? But the point I’m trying to make here, is not that I buy myself single servings of ice cream, because why not just buy the entire half gallon? If I’m going to buy a bunch of single [...]
Posted in Everyday, Living In Community on Oct 27th, 2008 3 Comments »
One mild evening this summer I sat on the front steps with a friend, enjoying the warm evening air while drinking a glass of chilled white wine. There was a party at the rental hall next door, and we enjoyed the backdrop of festive mariachi music coming from the open doors.
The rental hall is [...]
Posted in Comfort & Control, Everyday, Ruthie, Thomas on Oct 24th, 2008 5 Comments »
I’m having the time of my life this year with a three and five year old. We go on adventures and treasure hunts, we have conversations, we joke around, we act silly and make things together. I’m sure some of this relative peace is because I’m not so crazy in the head as I [...]
Posted in Everyday, Getting Things Done on Oct 21st, 2008 6 Comments »
I got up at 5am this morning to get a few bookkeeping things done before leaving for the day. Bryan and I chatted while I worked, I sipped my coffee, and I was fully in a good mood by the time Ruthie woke up at 7am. And now as I get ready to leave, not [...]
Posted in Everyday, Thomas on Oct 16th, 2008 4 Comments »
I am writing this from the parking lot of Thomas’ preschool, sitting in the passenger seat of the car (The driver’s seat does not slide back far enough for me to sit with my laptop. Or perhaps my belly is too big).
Despite the fact Thomas is STILL not potty trained, he started preschool two mornings [...]
Posted in Everyday, Seen, Heard, Said on Oct 15th, 2008 4 Comments »
I really don’t like what politics and religion bring out in people. We are mean to each other - perhaps, at times, without even realizing it.
Please, have an opinion. Please feel free to express that opinion articulately and with conviction. Please engage in strong debate with someone of an opposing opinion. But please, please, [...]
Posted in Everyday, On Writing on Oct 9th, 2008 1 Comment »
Wow. It’s Thursday, and my last post was the Friday Link Love. I guess that makes it pretty obvious I haven’t blogged in awhile.
My blog locked me out again over the weekend, not accepting my login and password. That’s always frustrating. It left me hanging in mid air with a digital photo of mozzarella [...]
Posted in Everyday, Ruthie, Things on Sep 24th, 2008 1 Comment »
Silly me.
In the weeks leading up to the start of Kindergarten, I worried, I fretted, I questioned whether Ruthie would make it through the day without a nap. Without one she’d always slogged in the afternoon, and freaked out at bedtime from being over tired.
But after the first week of school it became clear: [...]
Posted in Everyday, Learning, Living In Community on Sep 17th, 2008 10 Comments »
I’ve been pondering over the issues of education and the inner city at great length since last Spring when I registered Ruthie for kindergarten. We are a white, middle class family living in a diverse community with lower class and working poor families. On more than one occasion I’ve heard my neighborhood referred to as [...]
Posted in Everyday on Sep 16th, 2008 3 Comments »
Silly me.
Here I thought I’d be seeing more of you once school started, but as it turns out I’m actually more productive and busy when forced into a schedule.
(shut up, bryan)
(I SAID, SHUT UP!)
(okay, Bryan, you can stop laughing, now)
(*sighing*)
Also, I’ve been dealing with some health issues that leave me tired. The Fabulous Doctor is [...]
Posted in Everyday, Ruthie on Sep 14th, 2008 1 Comment »
Thomas spent the night at a friend’s house this weekend, and I sent Bryan out to read peacefully in a quiet place far away from All That Is Undone here at the Zug Haus - which of course left Ruthie and I to ourselves for a GIRLS NIGHT IN.
I rented High School Musical from Netflix, [...]
Posted in Everyday on Sep 9th, 2008 10 Comments »
I was reading through I Corinthians 13 a couple years ago, berating myself for being the Meanest Mom on the Planet, and having a hard time feeling the love Paul was intending to get across. Being that I am a list girl, I broke it down and re-wrote the passage on a piece of paper [...]
Posted in Depression, Everyday on Aug 14th, 2008 3 Comments »
For more than a week I’ve been a blithering mess of tears, a knotted fist of anger, an empty bucket of failure. During this time I drafted one or two essays describing just how far beneath the dust of the earth my worth is - the kind of stuff that prompts emails from strangers begging [...]
Posted in Blog Stuff, Everyday, Ruthie on Aug 12th, 2008 No Comments »
I’m so not in the mood to blog anything, and I haven’t been doing much writing either. But I thought I would just mention that I am NOT a 75 year old man with gout. I saw a podiatrist on Monday and it turns out I have tendinitis, which likely developed as I overcompensated for [...]