Three

Dear Miss T: Happy birthday, little one.  Three years, wow!  Look at you, getting all big and stuff. You, missy, certainly keep us all on our toes.  You’re just always up to something – whether with the intent of mischief or not.  For example, one morning when I went to get you out of bed, […]

2010: A summary

For lack of creativity (and motivation), look!  A meme!  We all know I love memes of all flavors.  I’ll go ahead and do this year-end wrap-up on the assumption that not much else of note is going to happen this year. 1. What did you do in 2010 that you’d never done before?  Started graduate […]

From the outside listening in

Scene: Dinnertime, kitchen.  I’m putting away the clean silverware.  N is sitting nearby. Me: This silverware is getting nasty.  We’re going to need to replace it.  It offends me. N: Yeah, I know.  That’s okay, we’ll have to go to IKEA soon anyway to get a thing for his thing.  [looks meaningfully at AE] AE: […]

13 Days, 12 Rounds

It randomly occurred to me this morning that I never posted about Halloween.  Probably because there wasn’t much to report, really – N was still in Florida awaiting the shuttle launch, so my mom came into town to help me wrangle the kids.  My sister also happened to be here, and she came in handy […]

As if I have anything better to do

Since N is in Florida and the kids are in bed, how better to spend my Saturday night than reviewing wine?  I haven’t done that in a while anyway, because even though grad school has not slowed my wine consumption considerably, it has slowed the frequency with which I post here.  Which is devastating to […]