At Robert's parents house, preparing to play dominoes ( Read more... )

Brooklynn's schedule is different this summer - instead of putting her into a long daycare (they call them 'camps'), she's doing a bunch of different things. This would have been too stressful if it wasn't for the fact that Robert is there to handle any chaos... if, in the end, Brooklynn falls out of the schedule on a day and has nowhere to go, she ( Read more... )

Robert's mother sends us home with random but specific things. Three potatoes and a can of evaporated milk. Eight boxes of sugar free orange jello and taco seasoning. This time, it was half a jug of orange juice ( Read more... )

It was 11:14am - Brook had just fallen asleep on the couch, Rbt was still asleep in the bedroom. I had spent the last half hour outside in the sun (near the sun) on a blanket. My eyes hadn't adjusted to the dark and dreary bedroom. I snuck in next to Robert, crouched beside his face and whispered, "It's so pretty outside ( Read more... )

"I can't change - even if I tried. Even if I wanted to. My love, she keeps me warm ( Read more... )

Something about yesterday ( Read more... )

Mom picked Brooklynn up from school at 3:05. Took her to Border's to buy a couple books. Then took her to Doug's pizza store. She ordered a small pineapple pizza for Brooklynn and a philly cheese steak pizza for us. Three drinks ( Read more... )

Duncan Hines confetti cupcake mix smells like plastic after you add three eggs, 1 and 1/4 cups water and a tablespoon of oil ( Read more... )

Brooklynn has this way of really watching my face. She said, "Momma, WHY don't you believe in God ( Read more... )

We were sitting in Eden's living room after the run, complaining about our mothers. Eden said grandma (my mom's mom) wouldn't let her walk through the woods to get to our house. Looking back on it, that would have been about a mile in the country to travel. When Eden was 16 and wanted to jog to our house, grandma followed her in the car ( Read more... )