It just occurred to me ... what if LJ eventually dumps people's accounts due to inactivity just like my favorite online gaming site does ( Read more... )

The title just about sums it up. One big happy blur. That's how the end of 2008 seems to me in looking back on it ( Read more... )

One day, I'll post about the blizzard. LOL And Annie rehearsals. And all the crazy excitement swirling around us right now ( Read more... )

I think this may be S's last year for Santa. He's waning. I can tell ( Read more... )

When the kids walk in the door each day, they verbally wrestle each other over the opportunity to be the one that gets my attention for some story du jour. I hear about lunch, recess, tests, what the mean girl did, the works. In the midst of the afternoon chaos, E tossed out that she'd written a great story today and wanted to show it to me. "Hamy' ( Read more... )

Ever have "one of those days" just sneak up on you out of nowhere and bowl you over? I don't mean one of those bad days that is likely assumed by that statement. I mean one of those "all is right in the world" days that you weren't expecting at all and then ... there they are. I don't know where it came from. I don't know why it's here, frankly, ( Read more... )

I feel the need to write something. Anything. But, as is often the case in monumental moments in my life, I'm finding all my words lacking. Nothing seems quite good enough, so it seems pointless to try. Yet, here I am. Trying.

I've spent the past 24 hours fluxuating between crying tears of joy, laughing, yelling, forgetting about it briefly in the ( Read more... )

It's here. The big day. A day 233 years in the making. The day we change history ( Read more... )

We have Annie on the brain. Every car ride, we sing until we're hoarse. Tonight, *finally*, we rented the movie and the kids loved it. Now they've seen "themselves" in the production and have a full understanding of the whole story. Their excitement about the show is growing and I just don't hope they grow sick of it before Christmas. I also hope I ( Read more... )

I wasn't ready for this. It snuck up on me out of nowhere and slapped my oblivious face ( Read more... )