the cell phone anxiety has now seeped over into myspace and my email account. i have so many unanswered messages and emails and i just can't make myself respond. what the heck is wrong with me? i like these people, i love them actually.. but every time i sit down to write back it's like i seize up and have to go do something else. like ( Read more... )

I had some things that I wanted to talk about but now of course I seem to have lost track of them ( Read more... )

Okay, I feel like a huge jerk now ( Read more... )

I am the co-chair of the parents' group at Leif's school. Tonight we have our second meeting and I just spent the last hour or so translating everything that I want to talk about in the meeting into Spanish. Over half of the parents who showed up to the last meeting didn't speak any English at all, so I thought for this meeting I would try to ( Read more... )

we took the kids to the museum of nature and science in raleigh today. it was pretty fun. leif got scared in the butterfly house though, i didn't expect that ( Read more... )

I've been feeling pretty domestic since moving and as a result we've been eating way better than we normally do. I had been hoping that I'd be stressed out and not eating as much (as usually happens when I'm stressed out) but this has definitely not been the case. Instead, I've been chowing down on delicious stuff from my kitchen. This is much ( Read more... )

I need to go to the dentist. Like, really really badly. It's been about 3 or 4 years now and the last time I went the dentist told me I had several more cavities to fill and then I never went back. Yep, not good decision making on that front. At this juncture I think it would be kind of fun to go in and do the sleep dentistry and get knocked ( Read more... )

So here I am in Chapel Hill. Once again I find myself at the end-of-summer nostalgia point where I look back on myself at this time last year and realize that I could never have predicted then that I would be here now. I'm a full-time stay at home mom living in North Carolina. WTF? Here's to keeping it unpredictable - it's a good way to live ( Read more... )

Goodbye, Madison.

( i'm going to get cheesy and sentimental, so sue me )

1. inspection went off with nary a hitch. by some act of god we have managed to sell our house in less than a month in this horrible market ( Read more... )