If I'm lucky these days, Halen's one nap will last about 2 hours. Especially on days like this, when "we" were up multiple times last night, trying to adjust back to our normal schedule after a weekend that disrupted it.
I'm exhausted, she's exhausted. At noon, I decide its Time for her nap. For all her busy-ness leading up to it, she didn't put up ( Read more... )

I know a few years back I posted about my spring/fall obsession with organizing my closet/clothes. Each change of season, I haul out the turtlenecks (or put them away) and the same with the shorts and t-shirts. I started getting the 'organization itch' over the weekend when I made our first "Projects List" for the spring. From washing windows, to ( Read more... )

So... they call it the "terrible twos". I have to admit I haven't given this stage much thought... if any thought at all. Up until recently I was still in the "will she ever sleep through the night" phase. But once she got that all sorted out, she now trying to figure out... who in the hell knows.
And what's strange about this is, I'm not angry or ( Read more... )

So, I have to believe there is this 'black hole' out there that every so often my emails from my home account go to. I send out a message and months can go by.... and I hear nothing in response. And it seems to go in patterns.... everything moves along fine for a few months and then I have a week where I reach out and the response... well... there ( Read more... )

I've been thinking on and off lately that I might like to start another journal. To write about the little things I'm doing to make our home healthier and our yard friendlier and our food.... well, our own.
And then today I finished a novel... almost 400 pages in less than 2 days... this truly is a first in my A.H. life. I felt recharged, ( Read more... )

Let me just start by saying, this isn't a "Friendly" post. This is a selfish, perhaps even nasty post. So.
Since Halen, I've felt the need to really guard my time. Getting together for coffee with a friend means having to 'ask' Ace if he doesn't mind me leaving him with Halen. Before you 'balk' and say, "she's his child too!", understand that Ace ( Read more... )

I try to be really 'careful' when talking about Halen. I don't want to be the 'bragging' mom that everyone wants to avoid. And I hope when I do talk about her, it doesn't Sound like I'm bragging, rather that I'm just talking about my child and her latest antics.
What we're told again and again is that she's Quite Advanced when it comes to talking. ( Read more... )

Let me first start by saying I didn't mention all of my 'amazing friends' in the list below. It was mostly an 'artistic' decision (that only I would get I think)... but I am sorry if anyone felt left out. If you're reading this (meaning you I gave you the link), you Most Certainly fall into the amazing friend category. And thank you to you too.
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So, yesterday while trying to retrace the 'demise' of my friendship with A- (see previous entry), I went back to my old journals. And by old, I mean from April, 1996. I was 'with' Dave #1 then. He was on tour during the part of the journal I was reading, so there was many random entries analyzing 'us'. I was pleasantly surprised by the insight I ( Read more... )

Tuesday night (at a concert I will need to post about later) an old friend greeted me with a Hug. One of those tight, holding on kind of hugs, that say so much more than, "hi, how ya been?".

It was.... serendipitous that we'd run into each other at that show. 14 years ago I stepped Way out of my comfort zone and went up to this artist and asked ( Read more... )