For each of my children’s birthdays I write them a letter here… to read “someday”…. Sometimes I am a bit behind and I am NEVER early. My oldest and youngest got theirs “on time” this year, but not my middle daughter. Oh my poor middle child. Her birthday was in May. My calendar tells me [...]
Family
Literally
Children. They are such literal thinkers, no? This morning at breakfast my 7 year-old daughter inquired about a song, Mom. You know that Annie song, “Tomorrow”?… It says, “Bet your bottom dollar”… Um… Is… Is that a bad song? It took a moment, but I realized what she was thinking… Can you imagine what was [...]
Fa' Real?
The Confessional – Maggots
Here I am WAS bidding for a job… a job with some level of visibility for a local financial institution…(when I originally posted this) yet I can’t resist. I should let them think I have it all together… just let them believe I run my home like a well-oiled machine. Why can’t I let feeding [...]
Beauty - ha!
Make Me Laugh Monday – My Children, My Madness, My Joy… and Also My Digressionses
I woke up one morning. I got out of bed. I heard my Mama… And what did she say? She said, “What do want, On your breakfast bread?” I said, “JAM ON IT!” Heh. ‘Member that rap? Ah…. childhood. I’ve always been a wrapper at heart. Even as a blue eyed white girl… whose first [...]
Fa' Real?
Can I Be Totally Honest?
This weekend sucked. I was going to “fluff” up the “sucked” part and be all, “This weekend was Stinky Stinkerson.” But if I wrote that, the the “totally honest” part of my title would not have been “totally honest”. It was not a weekend of illness. Nor a weekend of tragedy. Nor a weekend of [...]
Funny Funnerson
My Little Girls
Don’t let the picture fool ya. All that “primping”… all that pink. Because as soon as they step away from the mirror, one will hear/observe things like I experienced last night while we waited for big brother’s soccer practice to end… Olivia (7) sat on the grass (criss-cross applesauce-style) while Lucy (4) spun about like [...]
General
The Nail Fairy?
My feet are a WRECK. Over the past 3 years I have stacked running and triathlon events in such a way that my feet have not have the opportunity to return to the intended state they were given to me. You know, 10 intact, cute-ish toes… all with nails. Not model feet, but I considered [...]
General
I Stand Corrected.
OK. So the other day week I was wandering the halls of Macy’s… lusting and drooling over… stuff. Non-specific stuff, really. I am distracted by pretty things, shiny things, thing-things, colorful things… of all thingness. The newer the better. And while sales are nice, it seems the stuff I adore the most… is never on [...]
Delusions of Grandeur
It Smells Like Jenny on the Spot
That’s what my 7 year old daughter said after watching a fireworks show on the 3rd of July. Yes, the 3rd. My community and another local small community around here do a “3rd of July” fireworks show. Though my own community puts on quite a 3rd of July display, this year we headed to the [...]
General
10 Years Ago Today I Became a Mom
Are you crying? No? Well, writing that title – a mere 8 words – made my heart volley with emotion. Joy. Fear. Overwhelm. Blessing. Pain. Recovery. Hope. Purpose. Love… And it all started with this kid. That’s my boy. My first-born. My son. A namesake. A compassionate. A comedian. A standard-holder. A promise keeper who [...]
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