It’s the little things, ya know?

The tree is up, complete with a string of lights with a short at the top of the tree that keep blinking off and on, but I refuse to take off the top decorations and replace with a good string. I refuse because I have this thing about garland. My garland is wired ribbon. The [...]

Bath math.

Two little girls are placed in a standard sized bathroom tub with approximately six inches of water. Their combined height is approximately 5′. Their combined weight is around 60 lbs. After 20 minutes, the post bath time towel count is as follows:  2 sopping-wet full-sized bath towels; 2 moderately-wet full sized bath towels (will drip [...]

Looking forward

I’ve been a busy lady, doing all the things I’m supposed to be doing to stay sane. Working a lot, spending more time with the kiddos, trying to not fall behind on my graduate work… but I did want to stop by and say hi to the 2 or 3 of you who check in [...]

What time is it?

First of all, I’ve watched about five straight episodes of The Cosby Show (while doing other things around the house, of course) and I love it.
And, I’m wondering… am I the only one having a hard time staying awake past 9:30 since the time change?
Finally, Super L gets her first real “big girl” haircut tomorrow. [...]

Baby, this ain’t a celebration blog.

I’ve had so many thoughts and emotions over the past week. It makes me wish I was more connected and still in the habit of writing poetry. My mind can barely wrap itself around everything that has happened. When I’m really honest, I ask myself, so what if my candidate was elected? There are still [...]

Little Heaven

Change what I can and pray
The hope will not disappear
When we are not denying anything
Nothing is an enemy

from “Little Heaven” by Toad the Wet Sprocket
I know, I said less posts, but I’ve been listening to a lot of music today while working and this one just has really resonated today with everything that is swirling [...]

Tic-tic-tic-tic

That is the sound of the ever-present ticking clock in my head. You know. The one that tells you that no matter how much you do, you won’t get it all done.
The last two weeks have been pretty cruddy:
A couple of weeks ago, I was told that I am not fit to be a teacher [...]