Wednesday morning I mopped the floors, and later that night I tried a new cookie recipe. The cookies are very yummy, and the entire family has been snacking on them over the past two days. Last night Super L runs into the house all sweaty and breathless from running around the backyard, and she asks [...]
Entries from June 2009
June 23, 2009
Firstborn.
You are growing wiser yet seem to need me more
these days. You are growing shyer–which puzzles me.
Is there something I am missing?
Sometimes I just want to say enough:
Enough with the questions and repetitions of
the same questions, enough with the need for constant–
constant reassurances, enough with the questioning,
enough with the relentless talking, enough with the
need to [...]
June 20, 2009
Her name is Tula.
…pronounced too-la. Within an 30 minutes of coming home, she managed to pee on the living room floor, despite five people sitting no more than 4 feet away watching her every move. By the 1 hour mark, she had pooped on me because I was the lucky one who caught her mid-squat. I swooped her [...]
June 16, 2009
Paralysis of thought.
When she wasn’t where she was supposed to be which was 10 feet to my left, when I had circled around twice, when I retraced my steps again, when the well-meaning employee who stood by the door assured me that she was still in the building, when I circled around for the fourth time, when [...]
June 12, 2009
The birds and the bees.
What??? Did you think this post was going to be about something else?
June 9, 2009
Here’s what’s working for me.
In case you were needing a change in perspective or to just be reminded that beauty is everywhere. Because indeed, sometimes that is all we need.
But when you take a closer look…
…and change your perspective…
this is what…
the creepy-crawlies see…
How so incredibly lovely…
Lovely awaits us…
every single day.
.
June 7, 2009
The best that we can do.
After a long summer Saturday, my family and I suddenly found ourselves hungry. It was already 8 p.m. and neither John nor I felt like even making so much as a pot of spaghetti. So we did what any good parents would do, we let McDonalds supply the meal for the girls while John and [...]
