Hating the way I feel right now
It’s completely kicking my butt, this parenting thing. Right now, I feel like a crappy mom. I wonder how on earth I could ever, really, be the parent to two kids when this one is driving me bananas.
He’s three, and that has made everything more complicated. And tonight bedtime was a crappy overblown push-pull [...]
A fun weekend
New baby chicks & new bantam chickens from a neighbor (we named the rooster Guisseppe!)
A new bike for Bean.
New plants in the garden.
Sore muscles.
A night with just DH.
And only four three weeks left of school.
I know I promised I’d write more
But it’s been sunny and I’ve been outdoors in the garden. I’ve decided I want to keep a garden journal here–but I’m afraid if I say so, I’ll surely sabatoge my entire attempt. Everything I seem to say I want to do I immediately lose all interest in following through on. Why is that? Anway, [...]
How do you wear this?
So, in a month we’ll be heading to Spain for a friend’s wedding. Have I told you that? I’m so excited. It will be my first time since 1997 being overseas. Holy shit. I was 19 when I left, after having spent a year in Germany (also the year I set my hair on fire [...]
Weekend snapshots
(Bean took this one.)
The world has turned green. Less than a month left of school. The morning sun is waking me up, and I’ve been heading out to run more. Still not feeling totally in harmony with myself yet: still too much on my plate. But more days and more moments where the the orbit [...]
Nerdyness
We are going to The Cure tomorrow, up across the border. I’m not sure if this is cool. DH thinks it is, but he’s the kind of guy who can sing the lyrics to EVERY SINGLE SONG on the face of the earth. Really. His favorite genre: every song from the ‘80s.
Thus, when [...]
It figures…
…that the day I’ve set aside (taking full advantage of it being Mother’s Day so I can totally claim several back to back hours) for finishing up my two manuscripts (which incidentally are DUE tonight) is GLORIOUS.
Apple blossoms, a perfect breeze, seedlings to plant in the garden. Sigh. And here I am in my [...]
Glimpse
He’s there on the couch playing guitar and the notes are doing things for him that make my breath catch. Not perfect, but strings of notes in a minor chord from the sun-faded couch where he’s sitting barefoot.
Outside the lilacs are just beginning to bloom. It’s Saturday again and I can’t seem to manage [...]
Saturday in reverse
Eating Nutella out of the jar and writing.
A two hour nap with Bean, our noses pressed into nooks amongst the pillows, rain falling outside.
Buying seedlings: artichokes (the love affair continues), lettuces, swiss chard.
Following a dashing Bean around the Aquarium, checking out turtles stacked like pancakes, and sea stars and frogs.
“Let’s be sturgeons,” he [...]