As most everyone who reads this site knows, we did lose my mom this past Sunday. The past few days have really been a blur. Apologies in advance for droning on about sad things; I promise I will be back to writing tales of tear-inducing laughter in no time. I did want to post here […]
Category Archives: family
the leaving
The past two months at our household have actually been pretty tough ones. My mother has been quite sick and the hospital is beginning to know her about as well as the pediatrician’s office recognizes Lydia. I’m sorry — I probably shouldn’t joke. It’s been very tough for my parents these last few weeks. It’s […]
February’s sickness brought to you by the letters b, a, r, and f
Yesterday I’m driving down 280 listening to a fellow on the radio gabble about James Madison when my cell phone rings at me. It’s the house. Steven had sent me an email earlier that day saying he wasn’t feeling too well so if the house was calling me he must be bad off. “Uh oh,” […]
my kingdom for a lap
Lydia, Hermione, and I were playing on the floor this morning when Hermione spied an open lap to cuddle up in: Lydia’s. She went for it, which got Lydia so excited she began scissor-kicking. Hermione, now feeling rejected, came back into my arms to cuddle with me. I’m just thrilled that Hermione recognizes Lydia as […]
taco covered in presents
Just now are we really settling down from the holidays and I can sit on my bootie for a minute to share with the Internets Lydia’s Fun Christmas Day. Lydia had a special visitor at her daycare right before Christmas — the man himself, Santa Claus! Lydia was more than happy to sit down with […]
the house on main
*[Ed. note: written for my aunt’s requested Christmas Theme: a memory that occurred in their house, meaning the one my great grandparents and grandparents lived in — the one they now inhabit.] ___________________________________ I have been ransacking the 8mm reel films of memories in my head, trying to come up with the best memory, the […]
this is how we roll
hey you, get off my lawn
Right around the time Lydia was born I happened to notice something moving around in the natural area beyond the lawn in our back yard through the windows. I looked up in time to see a bright yellow go cart backing up out of the natural area into the trees. I also noticed a trail […]
cats, poop, and babies are my life right now
Renton has excellent timing, as we all know. Thursday morning he waddles up to where Steven I are getting ready for work and sighs out a low, mournful meow. Uh oh. After checking him out — hot to the touch, generally pissed off — we surmise he is yet again overly constipated and sporting a […]
listen . . . do you smell something?
It’s DAMN NEAR GAME DAY!!! And we’re not on television; Carrie can’t watchie! 🙁 Poop. Speaking of poop . . . (you know there’s gonna be more of these stories now that Lydia is about) Steven got home with Lydia yesterday afternoon. He’s Daycare Daddy right now. We were about to turn right back around […]