an experiment

Baby L made this mess at least 5 days ago.  You have to walk around it to get to the kitchen and it is spread out all over the floor of the dining room where the three dogs sleep at night.  I am just wondering if/when the handyman will notice it and be compelled to [...]

why i love fiction

I just got finished reading a Doc Ford novel (Randy Wayne White Black Widow) which is a series about a biologist ex-secret operative who I really, really like (maybe am sort of crushed on) even if he, well, likes to kill people (they are bad people usually).  And even though sometimes the plots get on [...]

a good day

There are days when I feel really disappointed about where things have sort of ended up for me career wise.  I enjoy teaching but I actually would also like to pay off our house and have money to travel and enjoy my life post child rearing (it is  too scary to type out the word [...]

well…

Work and facebook are derailing the blog.  I’m still reading yours though.

must be a full moon

I’m wide awake and it must be the full moon.  Pearl had the surgery and I felt bad for her being a cone head so I took it off for her to eat and then L got fussy and I forgot to put it back on and luckily the handyman wandered into the kitchen before [...]

just bear with me

Okay, so before the semester started I had some concerns about my 78 year old mom and 74 year old father (who is not very mobile) caring for my two children two afternoons a week while I worked.  My dad also seemed nervous and said to both me and the handyman on several different occasions [...]

testy

Maybe it is the third week of my only sleeping about 2 hours in a row before being wakened by a toddler with an ear infection or a baby who I now think might have a cold but I am already feeling a bit irritated by my college students.  Because of last Spring’s problems I [...]

t rejects her new bed

First, I just don’t get boxing.  I mean why is it still socially acceptable to watch two guys beat the crap out of each other (and bet on it to boot)?  But, I am thrilled that HBO is now showing Juno which I watch as I type this post.
T has been sleeping on a futon [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]