happy new year resolution

I have been reading Love Over Scotland by Alexander McCall Smith and was taken by this passage:
 Or could it be envy?  Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness.  People did not realise how widespread envy was.  [...]

first christmas

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I sent out a package to my sister-in-law who lives in Seattle that was actually from my sister-in-law in New York as she accidentally included it in our Christmas box. I got to the post office and it was a freaking NUT house. There was a line for the clerks out the door and I [...]

waxing nostalgic

Okay, this actually made me laugh out loud today:
http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/sketch-diary-121007
which is a good thing since I am at home stuck inside with a snot-nosed baby (literally as the bean is sick) and not in Mexico where my schedule is either: 1. get up and make breakfast; go SCUBA diving; eat lunch at Papa Hogs; go to [...]

santa

Well, I braved my first trip to the mall in 5 years but overall it was worth it because I think this picture is super cute (sorry Unfit Mother for our ’selling out’ to the SC). Santa had to be at least 6′ 5″ and my favorite was the little girl who [...]

is this what happened to snuffleupagus?

I have been enjoying participating in my local ‘moms’ forum as have gotten some good advice and it is fun banter to do while waiting for laundry to dry or my students to finish their final exam (last night 2 students took the entire exam period for a 75 multiple choice test–never happened before and [...]

too nice out to care

It is freaking balmy and 75 degrees today!  I didn’t even mind that Hazel rolled in fish and I had to wade in twice and dunk her or that I kind of got stuck in the mud walking by the river in the now sandy beach area created by the water being so low so [...]

sounds so simple i just have to go

For the past six years since moving back to Tennessee we have spent the holidays in Mexico and this will be the second year we skip (last year I was too pregnant, I still wanted to go but the handyman nixed it, and this year the bean is so little and we are broke). [...]

my boring life

The handyman has been out of town for work since Sunday afternoon which has been a busy one for me because it is the week before finals (and the week I give lab practicals) so I have been writing tests and grading papers. This actually has worked out okay because last week at Baby [...]

poor bunny

Today Pearl found a decapitated bunny that she refused to relinquish at the park.  She came running up to the stroller wagging her tail off with the poor thing in her jaws.  Twice in the past week I have seen a red-tailed hawk on the wing (maybe 15 feet up) over the open fields (this [...]