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Power Struggles and ... Columbus, OH, anyone?
Kids were sick. I was sick. Then kids got sick again. That's been my last 2 weeks in a nutshell. Oh, and this week, I helped my sister-in-law make 50 bridal shower favors, including the design and running around to get all the materials. They turned out great, and it was nice having someone besides the kids to talk with for a few days, but I'm glad ( Read more... ) -
this week
First, to lissannej, big hugs and I wish I could do something for you ( Read more... ) -
Love and hate and sickness and idea
Love: I love lissannej. So very much :) I got a package from her yesterday and it contained a journal with one of my favorite quotes, the one by Mary Anne Radmacher on my user page. The front of it even looks like an enlarged replica of the magnet that I bought with it when Liss and I were in Canada. So thoughtful of her to remember and it made me tear up a ( Read more... ) -
to the opera
Last night, I put on the only dress I own, fixed up my hair and put on some make-up, and dropped the kids off at my in-laws for the evening. Then, I took myself to the opera. it was something I had been wanting to do for a while, and then last week we got a postcard in the mail about it. It seemed serendipitous, since it was so close to my birthday ( Read more... ) -
Confession time: I like the Barbie movies
I was never a Barbie fan. Not as a child, not as a mother. Perhaps it's because as a child, I was a chubby, bespectacled brunette and there was no one in Barbie Land who reflected that. Perhaps as a mom, I worried that my impressionable daughter would become too focused on her weight and start saying thing like, "I'm fat. I need to go on a diet" at ( Read more... ) -
Hockey anyone?
A couple of weeks ago at the open house for B's school, D bid on a silent auction itme of Penguin hockey tickets and a $100 gift card to a great restaurant. He won the bid and the game was today ( Read more... ) -
Kids, TV, moving, miscellaneous
Mom, Dad, and Brother were here for most of last week for Baby J's birthday, which meant that lots of housework and laundry was done last week. This week ... not so much :) Then again, I was so ill I could barely get off of the couch for most of Monday and Tuesday so that could explain it. I basically guilted D into taking yesterday off because I ( Read more... ) -
Happy Birthday, Baby J!
Exactly one year ago at this time, I was in the process of giving birth to the little boy whose smile will forever light up my heart. And, finally, at 10:20 PM, he made his first appearance in this world ( Read more... ) -
Adorable baby or demon?
Had another supremely bizarre dream last night. This time, Baby J was the devil. As in hovering in the air, bad things happening all around him, inflicting bad things to happen devil. We had moved to Miami, and he started with some evil looks, but eventaully progressed to floating n mid-air and then making the world shake and eerie otherworldly ( Read more... ) -
historic review
I just finished reading "The Lady is Tempted" by Cathy Maxwell. it wasn't all that great style-wise or story-wise or really any kind of wise ... and yet, I almost cried during it. Tony and Deborah were in love, but he was engaged to someone else (not a love match) and they couldn't be together. Of course, things worked out at the last minute, but I ( Read more... )