I’m not sure what was so tasty in our last bag of trash, but we have found ourselves today with quite the gnat problem. They were horrible impediments to my studying – I don’t know how the farm animals deal with such distractions all day, every day, and I’m pretty sure those can be biting [...]
First, Happy Mother’s Day to all the awesome Mamas everywhere! Mine is the bomb dizzle, of course. Raising the munchkins is quite a job, and I’m grateful to the Moms in my life for who they are and what they mean to me, and I’m so glad to be Zoe’s Mom. Full disclosure: she’s been [...]
On the way home from school today, Zoe and I were talking about many things, among which is Chief’s upcoming check-up at the vet. I said, “Chief is going to visit his doctor on Tuesday – do you want to come with me?” She said she did and went on to talk all about how [...]
Daddy-O is at a meeting tonight, so Zoe and I have had a very fun girls’ night in. We made dinner, played games, drew pictures, scrubbed the kitchen floor and tidied the apartment, ate strawberries and greek yogurt, and discussed what we will be when we grow up (Zoe will be a ballerina; I will [...]
We have a new niece, and she is gorgeous. I got to hold her, and I suppose it’s safe from 271 miles away to admit that anyone other than family would have to fight me with a weapon to surrender her because holding newborns is definitely in my top three activities. Not sure what the [...]
This morning sucked. It wasn’t that much different than any other morning, particularly a Tuesday or Thursday morning, but today was extra distressing – first world problem sorts of things. Thursdays Zoe has dance class around 9:30 AM, and Joel has class at 10 AM. It probably doesn’t need saying that we are always late [...]
First world problems, American Dream, suburban sprawl, etc.