Starting The Week Off Nice And Easy
It’s Monday. Mondays are crazy around here. E has double the after-school activities, Nikki has dance, and the typical Monday chaos of getting back into the swing of the week after a weekend, is in full force. There’s a reason Mondays are hated, I know, but I sometimes thing they are a tad more evil in our lives than normal humans should have to deal with. Aren’t... Read More
Rewind.
Can we just pretend I didn’t write that last entry just yet? And let me start later? Because today? FROM HELL. Seriously. One of those days where I was on the verge of tears all day. I’ve been a bit emotional lately – - – more sensitive than usual, but today? Extremely sensitive. So the reshaping my outlook on life and food thing? Didn’t quite pan... Read More
Adjustments
We’re struggling with adjustments in the new house – if you have any experience or stories of triumph (Heh.) in any of these areas, please let me know! This new house has an upstairs and a downstairs. It actually has a staircase on either side of the house, instead of one in the middle, so it’s easy not to hear what’s going on when the kids are sleeping.... Read More
Funky Cold Medina
(I was going to title this blog entry “Funk” but then a certain song popped into my head and I wanted to make sure you were hearing the same thing I was.) So…there’s a lot of stressers in my life right now. Stressers? Stressors? Stressars? Firefox has no suggestions and I’m too lazy to see whether or not I just made up a word. STRESSERS. It’s... Read More
Drive-By Parenting
Sometimes I’m just blown away when I realize many people ARE NOT LIKE ME AT ALL. I’ll see someone do something, or hear someone say something, that I can never in a gagillion years see myself doing or saying. This is actually quite rare because I’m the queen of empathy. Even people who live lives and have beliefs opposite of mine, I can usually relate to them... Read More
