In which I get mushy

Sometimes there are those things that you can’t let go of.  Past events, things you did, things someone said, moments in time that you wish had never happened or that had gone differently.  Things you know that you should let go of, that you need to drop, that it’s time to move on from.   Learn [...]

Mommy stuff

Hopping over from good ol’ Babble (if not for the Sweet Juniper incident I’d highly recommend their Daily Babble email, but now I feel sort of embarrassed that I almost always find something interesting there) because I just read this and started to comment, and then realized that I wanted to write more than a [...]

Ch-ch-ch-changes

So, this week is the first week of day shift.  Half over.  It’s not been as bad as I thought, though getting up in the dark because of gloomy weather is certainly no picnic, and getting to sleep at a “normal” hour is somewhat of a challenge.  There are good things and bad things about [...]

I have 6000 posts to write and none of them are this one.

I really need to utilize the goodness of Ms. Maggie Mason’s book here, and I also have some questions to answer, and today I talked to my Oma (German for Grandma) and she told me some amazing-ass stories I want to get down.
However, today was also The First Day of Kindergarten, and I still can’t [...]

Drama Queen

I took W to the playground today for a picnic, and he fell off the monkey bar-thingies and bit his tongue, and there was some blood.  But, for him, the worst part was that the other 3 kids on the playground didn’t come over to comfort him.  He sat in my lap, sweaty and teary, [...]

Ranting and Raving All Over the Internets

Oh, internet!  Our love, it is so good.  It makes it so that I can ignore my job while I read all 89 million blogs I have slapped into Google Reader.  Then I will want to blog about every single blog I read today, because what is more awesome than the extreme meta lamery of [...]

Happy Birthday Boyo!!

Five years ago today, at 1:58 pm on June 7th, weighing 8 lbs. 6 oz. and measuring 20 inches long…..  I wanted to end that sentence with something cheesy like “a miracle occurred” or “magic something” or even something about shepherds weeping and wise men and myrrh, but I controlled myself.  After some hours of [...]

“A fork is a terror to the cities of the little men who live on pancakes”

Or, notes from a weekend.
First things first:
“Well
Guy in a skeleton costume
Comes up to the guy in the Superman suit
Runs through him with a broadsword”
Could there possibly be a better way to start a song?  No?  I agree.  It just keeps getting better from there, too.  Mountain Goats are rocking my springtime this year.
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Boyo got into [...]

Blackberries at night

Sometimes, when I’m away all day, I miss my son so viscerally and awfully and can’t imagine how you can manage to live away from your children and survive it.  Doesn’t it break your heart?  The other night after I’d spent all day at school and then gone from there straight to work, I came [...]

Randomer and randomer

Fair warning: not only am I drinking a Newcastle, but it’s 1:30 am, and I just got home from work (which came directly after a boring, boring class), so I will probably go off on weird, confusing, perhaps even misspelled tangents tonight.
1) I remembered the other Cool-Ass Shizz I wanted to mention: baking soda. [...]