Jonah giggling to himself while he reads Swiss Family Robinson for school.

My perspective is not good this time of year anyway. I'm trying not to do anything drastic. Any input the denizens of LJ have is welcome. This is the situation ( Read more... )

No, no, no, I didn't mean it like that. It's just... well... February. February makes me want to do wild, insane things with my life. It makes me dissatisfied with everything and irrational and crave change. Sell everything and move to Botswana, type change. I need to not do these things ( Read more... )

I must not make major life decisions in February. I must not make major life decisions in February. I must not make major life decisions in February. I must not make major life decisions in February. I must not make major life decisions in February. I must not make major life decisions in February. I must not make major life decisions in February. ( Read more... )

Oh, yes, I am tired. Life right now feels a bit like I'm being pecked continually by ducks. No individual peck is much of a problem but they're starting to gang up and getting on toward drawing blood ( Read more... )

There's always a ps, isn't there ( Read more... )

This has been a... different... week. This week has completely cemented the otherwise obvious fact that I live in a community now. We're not just a family who lives in a place, this is a real community and all that entails is quite a lot sometimes. It's all new to me, even growing up I've never felt a real sense of community around me ( Read more... )

It looks like I'm going to be speaking at my church from the pulpit on Christmas morning. Holy terror, Bat-friends!

The building that houses our closest library also houses a food pantry. Today I took the kids to the library right from school and on our way out I saw the (long) line formed for the food pantry. I recognized a half dozen kids and families from the school. It hurts my heart.

So I emailed Ben's teacher a moderately snarky note about the papers.

Mrs. Tomison ( Read more... )