life.

  • The only bad thing about all of these sunny days

    is that eventually one gets hot and at around the time one gets hot, other ones are just chomping at the bit to get on their nerves. That happened to me today. I came home from Nat’s first track meet proud, yet roasted and a little tired of telling Max, “Hey, we are over here.… Read more


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  • Time to plant stuff.

    My life has blossomed into one great big to-do list. The kids are getting bigger so now they have more stuff and the stuff they had is more involved (and complicated – I have two teenagers now. Yikes). My mother-in-law is going to join us in March for five months. I am trying to squeeze… Read more


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  • Farewell 2012.

    I still have citrus oil under my nails from the zest I put into some mulled wine a couple of hours ago. Can something smell bright, because I believe this does. We were supposed to have a glitzy New Year’s Eve, but after all of the snow we got this afternoon, we just want to… Read more


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  • Wouldn’t you know it.

    After a post like my last one, challenges were popping up for me left, right and center. Each of my children tested me this morning. Al decided he wanted to attempt to start an argument when what he needed to do was apologize for what he did wrong, do what I told him to do… Read more


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