Here’s what I did today. I appear, in this post, to switch back and forth between present and past tense. I don’t know why I do this, and I don’t care. I just don’t want you to think I’m not aware of it.
7:30 AM: Woke up after a largely sleepless night, in spite of my [...]
How many pizza bagels should I plan to eat? Last time I had them I ate five. I’d planned for four, and then laughed at myself when they were gone, and admitted I wanted another one. By which I mean, I asked G to make me another one. Heh.
“You’ll get your body back,” a friend [...]
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Ugh. Ugh.
The thing with driving carpool and being stuck in horrible traffic for over an hour when it’s over 90 degrees outside and you’re pregnant and spitting and you use up all the tissues and can’t reach the other box, is that if you had just listened to the traffic report instead of texting with [...]
RS has been sick for two days. Terrible nausea, plus high fever, which I can tell because she’s on fire, though I haven’t taken her temperature. Yesterday she said she was going to come downstairs, but then she couldn’t, because… G had made eggs for breakfast for himself and the twins (God bless summer, when [...]
Yes, I am posting two days in a row. Hold on to your heartbeats.
Before I forget (again), here is an excellent story about my son, which I intended to share in last night’s post.
So there we were at the glasses store, and the girls had chosen theirs, and the Boy had broken his, and we [...]
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Making lists is boring. We leave, please God, for our annual road trip to good old St. Louie in approximately three weeks. I figured since all I’m really good for these days is sitting in one place, I could get a nice big jump start on the lists of things to bring (plural listS because [...]
It has not escaped our notice that yesterday and today were/are… the anniversary of R’s stroke. Of course it would be swell if it DID escape our notice, or if our notice would (could) escape IT, but that isn’t how it goes. There is no July 6 or 7 anymore; there’s just, well, you know. [...]
Want to know what never, ever stops going through my head? This:
Hope that works. If it didn’t, here’s the link, so it can go through your head as well. My son is ADDICTED to this video. Addicted. He will sit and watch, and has sat and watched, for an hour or more. Bear in mind [...]
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