Feeling better.  When the girls came home and asked what I was doing at school, I said I was out running errands and wanted to stop by to see them in their costumes.  Gabby and Claire both expressed annoyance that I made it for Mia's dance but not theirs, but when I shrugged and said I'd neglect Mia next time, they took it pretty well.  I'm going ( Read more... )

Okay.  I'm really hating life right about now.  Gabby, Claire, and Mia's classes are all doing pioneer day today.  I managed to round up a pioneer dress for all three triplets and sent them off to school this morning.  Go  me, right?  I should have left it at that.  I was sitting there after the kids left and saw a little flyer saying that the ( Read more... )

Just out of high school, I was a Kelly Girl.  One of my first long-term assignments was in the billing department of University of Omaha Med center.  I'd had jobs before but this was my first real nylons-and-blouse office job.  My mom worked there as well.  The manager there was a pre-menopausal pre-feminist named Beth, a manipulating bully of a ( Read more... )

Welcome to the world, Isabella Julia!   She's a healthy 7 lbs 12 oz. born Born at 12:02 pm Berlin time, as they're stationed in Germany, courtesy of the US Army.  Apparently she looks a lot like elder brother Xander except sporting a luxurious head of hair, lashes, and brows.  I can't wait to see pics of her but I imagine it's rude to demand OMG  ( Read more... )

Corey and I are now official home improvement badasses.  Together we ripped apart the washing machine and replaced the water intake valve, replaced wet-rotted siding and insulation on the eastern side of the house, and plugged up all the suspected mouse entrance holes on the western side with a whole can of expand-0-foam.  All in one day.  Okay so ( Read more... )

I'm beginning to resent the internet much in the same way I used to resent once-but-no-longer-promising boyfriends.  Always around, always something to say about any subject, always enthusiastic about corrupting yrs truly; a constant companion replete with private vocabulary and in-jokes.  It's all well and good until I realize that the reason he's ( Read more... )

We took the girls to their first real concert, the first night of the 80/35 festival in Des Moines, over the 4th of July weekend.  They were total champs.


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Summer classes were a mistake. I wish I had my life back.

Blarg. Guts still angry about my traditional Mother's Day drunk. Perhaps long island ice teas served in a pint glass was a bit too ambitious. At least, the third one was.

Remember in one of those Narnia books where CS points out that wretched, unimaginative, self-centered Eustace had read all the wrong sorts of books and was therefore ill equipped for life in Narnia? I always felt smug that I had read the RIGHT sort of books. So here's where this gets me ( Read more... )