new year

Yesterday in about an hour I single handedly de-Christmased our little world and let me just say I am so relieved to have things back to normal around here.  As a non-Christian, I celebrate Christmas because to me it is a cultural holiday and one that is kind of hard to ignore considering the way [...]

santa 08

L was a bit underwhelmed (i.e. passed out) and T shed her sweater and her hair barrette but I love this one.

a holly jolly

This will be our third Christmas of not skipping Christmas and going to Mexico (for typically two glorious weeks). I miss Mexico a lot. A whole lot. Except for the year we decided to save a little money and fly into Cancun (insanity; don’t ever do it), we left before the holiday [...]

suh–weet

In spite of sick husbands and dying aunts I am in a feverishly good mood these days.  T is getting older and I have figured out how to manage the two of them so I can get back to all the things I like to do and have staked out places where I can nurse [...]

no go

I didn’t go to Chicago.  I feel all kinds of guilt about it but it just was too much for me right now.  The handyman is going off the steroids and he is very fatigued and there were just too many unknowns for me (the weather, what I would do with T when I was [...]

for every season

I got some bad news this morning.  My beloved aunt (for whom T is named) who is 84 and has breast cancer is probably near the end as it has spread to her liver, hospice is coming now every day and her son says she is increasingly ‘disoriented.’  I am trying to decide if we [...]

aaaggghhhh

This semester is just never going to end.  Remember Ms. No Show a couple of months ago (who just had to meet with me in person so I arranged childcare and sat alone in the adjunct office)?  Now she has emailed me at least 4 times in the past 12 hours asking when I am [...]

procrastination

Like everyone else I should be grading papers (specifically about 40 lab reports before Monday; my least favorite paper to grade because, well, I actually have to read the entire report and comment which is tedious and the reason I am a science teacher and not an English teacher is to avoid such things) since [...]

a better night

My last post shows that I am a bit of a drama queen because the girls did really well last night and the handyman got a great night’s sleep in the basement.  I think it is the pregnancy insomnia of June and July that has just done me in and I just can’t feel caught [...]