For this year’s annual review, I’m revising the questions a bit to reflect the life events that I’d actually like recorded year after year . . . 1. What did I do in 2014 that I’ve never done before? I gave birth to a b — no wait. Done that before. I nursed a little…
Category: Navel Gazing (and I Don’t Mean Oranges)
Mary Speaks
I’ve always disliked that song “Mary Did You Know” (sorry if you love it!) It plays this time of year on repeat, and I switch the channel whenever I hear it. This is partly because it is pretty cheesy (see also: Christmas Shoes), but it is also because I feel that it is a rendering…
Three Day Weekend
My birthday tends to fall on Labor Day Weekend every year. (My younger sister’s lands on Memorial Day weekend -together, our birthdays bookend the summer). Back in the old school days, I was always the very youngest in the class. My birthday literally was the cutoff day – if I’d been born a day later,…
Robin Fly
I grabbed the Economist out of the mail today and flipped quickly to the obituary, like I usually do, and wondered who would be the subject next week, next month. Who is alive right now who will not be when I next pull the Economist out of the mailbox? Like I usually do. ****************************** Craig…
Sunday Morning Meal Planning
A rare morning that Liam has not drifted down the stairs at 5:30 am to cuddle with us, and so of course I’m up at that time anyway. Craig is nestled in with me – he cried for me at 4-something and I fed him and then let him stay. This tends to happen to…