WARNING: I’m about to talk about poop a lot. Yesterday, as the day was winding down and it was time for the kids to get ready for bed, I knew it was time for Sam to poop. Lately, even though Sam is potty trained and can pee in the potty all day long, he has […]
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Londinium: Day 8 “Travel Home Day”
Saturday Sept 10 I’m sitting in Bayswater station, and have been for some 15 minutes now, waiting on a district line train. Waiting. Time to get to the freaking airport, and some signal failure at Baker st has caused mass chaos on the Underground. Two hours till takeoff, still have a 30-40 minute Tube ride […]
Londinium: Day 7 “More Museums Day”
Monday, September 9 I guess I’m an every other day kinda writer. Portobello Market wasn’t all that spectacular, but that could be because it was closing down as we got there. We walked around Notting Hill for a while until we realized we were near the hotel. Had mediocre sushi for dinner, then we walked […]
Londinium: Day 5 “Museum Day”
Saturday, 9/7/13 Skipped a day again, haven’t I? I’m not doing really good at this. Yesterday wasn’t the most fantabulous day, anyway. We started off early, and it was rainy. British rain is surprisingly dreary even though it doesn’t rain much at once. It was coming down just enough that necessitated an umbrella. Messy affair. […]
Londinium: Day 3 “Off to the Tower Day”
Thursday, 9/5/13 Skipped a day already, haven’t I? Well, we lost a good half day just due to flying over the Atlantic. Our 5am is noonish over here. We took the Tube from the airport to our hotel; well, the vicinity of our hotel. After a little fumble near South Kensington, we made it to […]
Londinium: Day 1 “Travel Day”
Like last time, I kept up a journal during our trip to London, only this time I wrote it on my phone. Makes for easy copy and pasting! I’m going to dole it out in increments, so it won’t be to overwhelming. So we begin with . . . Day 1: Travel Day Despite I-20’s […]
a quick note
Time to torture myself with a plane ride again. This time we’re off to London. Why? Well, why not? We take off in a few hours. I suppose I should pack. Au revoir.
ask not for whom the school bell tolls, it tolls for thee
August is entering its hot, sweltering end and I am so looking forward to October. Only 38 more days! The kids are winding down out of summer mode, though the weather is still fine for swimming. Other than all that, there’s not much going on around here. Same ol’, same ol’. Oh yeah, Lydia also […]
scenes from the mundane: batteries
EXT. MOMMY’S CAR, A.K.A. ELLIOTT — EARLY EVENING The Williams family heads home after a day of swimming. MOMMY and DADDY are listening to music. LYDIA is staring out of the window, daydreaming. SAM is playing with a singing alphabet toy, commonly known as ‘W.’ SAM It need a batteries in it. Mommy? It need […]
an island divided
I’m sure you’ve figured it out by now, but we did survive the little excursion I had mentioned. It was a very pleasant getaway, one that was much needed. After our long vacation drought from 2007 to 2012, these little trips have been wonderful. It took two airplane flights to get to St. Martin*, and […]