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 [...]
Life as a bladder. Hear me out.
Approximately sixteen hours ago, I was so moved by the uncharacteristic quiet calm in our home that I tweeted. I thought I was being clever. Later Joel would chastise and blame me for precipitating the cascade of events that followed. After waking to an alarm this morning in an effort to get ourselves up during [...]
A few weeks ago, Chief and Sarge were placed into a new home. This decision was made after much consideration, mostly painful. On our list of pros and cons, the only pros were that 1. I loved them, and 2. They acted as good Hoovers when Zoe dropped food. As heavily as those weighed, the [...]
Today we addressed the issue of our “yard” by going to Lowe’s and getting a few bags of cedar mulch, a roll of weed-resistant blanket stuff, and a few bags of pine bark nuggets. Zoe frolicked in the garden center, and by the time we got home she was asleep. The rest of our project [...]
This morning the whole family took a refreshing swim in our complex’s lagoon-like pool, followed by a nap for Zoe and some much-needed unpacking for Mama. Later we explored a nearby park and ventured to the “Super” Wal*Mart. Turns out it wasn’t so super, as the smattering of groceries available was insufficient to complete my [...]
- Cat. Wanda and all her cat trappings went home with a new family tonight. We are sorry to see her go, but the people we met tonight are very nice, have a baby and another on the way and two dogs. Here’s to Wanda, one of the sweetest cats we ever knew. I’ll probably [...]
We have had minimal luck finding homes for our cats in circles of strangers; now I open up the search to the circle of people we know. I take full responsibility for how Wanda came into our lives. We took her in with the intention of finding her a home, and my pregnant self just [...]
Posting every day is not something I ever intended to do after NaBloPoMo ended, but I didn’t mean to take so many days off… I sort of had an excuse in the form of some awful cold. I’m happy to say that I am finally off my death bed. (Actually, I have an infant, so [...]
It started out a perfectly nice day. Zoe and I slept in later than I expected after her early bedtime last night. We played. We danced to “Pop” by *NSYNC no fewer than four times. I even got a few things done around the house. In retrospect I have pinpointed that things started to fall [...]