I miss my kids something fierce. It will be Friday before I see them again. I talked to Maura on the phone today, but she was so excited and distracted it was even less coherent than a typical phone call with a three year old. I could hear Little Man babbling in the background, and my heart just hurt ( Read more... )

This may be brief - I put Little Man down to bed at the same time as his sister - this is a new-ish experiment, and he's fighting it tonight ( Read more... )

The melancholy of a Sunday night...enjoyable weekend, but why is it over already ( Read more... )

So it's been five months since my husband and I officially decided to end our marriage of nearly 13 years. January was bad. February, March, also lousy. April was bumpy - he moved out, I accomplished a certain dubious feat, and learned that I can in fact stand on my own two feet and not look like I'm about to fall down ( Read more... )

So it's kind of weird to me that I met one guy on an online dating site, and while I still send the occasional message to other people on there, New Boy is appealing enough to me that I am focusing a lot of my time and energy on convincing him to be more than just a movie buddy who kisses me good night ( Read more... )

5/18 - cooked dinner at home for New Boy and his adorable son - kids ran around like monkeys, got along like old friends. Good time ( Read more... )

Settle down, settle down. Why can't I listen to myself? Too much is changing all at once, too much with uncertain endings. I get caught up, I can't relax.
Here, read this, some drunken group effort lyrics from early April in Philly.

Lie to me ( Read more... )

Cramming to meet a deadline for school! Such a foreign feeling, yet exhilarating ( Read more... )

So last Sunday I spent a thoroughly enjoyable day at Leigh's house. Tonight the kids and I spent a few delicious hours at Howard's. She and her husband have this laid-back style, a gorgeously wild backyard with a koi pond and lots of violets and hyacinths in the grass, and fun stone steps the kids enjoyed climbing. And a creek to get muddy in! OK, ( Read more... )

Ah, me ( Read more... )