I woke up Tuesday and went to work. (I worked Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday, with some major, major briefing going on – thank heavens I’d done that 13 days working in a row and gotten most of it done ahead of time. I did manage, even with Crazy Brief Times, to get home before 6 each day,…
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Life with the Tyrant
Kids are funny. Take my 2 year old, for example. – No please – take him. *canned laughter* We are in the thick of Craig being a total tyrant. Don’t get me wrong, he’s so funny and cute. A friend recently came to visit, and called him the silverback gorilla – short legs, long…
Drizzly Zoo Trip
Faced with the prospect of a rainy Saturday with the kids by myself, I contemplated staying home – them destroying the house, fighting, bouncing off the walls. I contemplated the aquarium – eleventy million people, kids scattering in three directions and being swallowed up in the crowd in seconds. So I settled on the zoo!…
Why My Sons are the Best
Craig knows new words every day. Every day. Today, for example, he said such sentences as “No bedtime yet for Craig.” “Line ’em up, cars!” “I want juice or milk baba.” “Aunt Corrie, Aunt Caki, Aunt Amanda, uuuuuum, who else? Nana! Grandpa Doc!” When he is being disciplined (gently) or put to bed or similar…
NOLA Spring
The magnolias are in bloom, already. Early each morning I am woken by a cacophony of birds twittering. The windows in this temporary apartment have no insulation – even when tightly closed and locked, most still have gaps the width of a pinky finger between frame and sill – and so those birds might as…