Farewell to Fall

Last weekend, over Halloween, we visited ODD’s parents before trick or treating.  It was perfect jacket weather and we played outside with the cousins who were visiting, too.  ODD took his plane out to try flying it.  He got some stuff for his birthday to modify it and make it tougher but it was still [...]

Self-Doubt

My mom came over this evening and took the kids and me out to Wienerschnitzel for dinner.  While Peanut smeared her greasy, chocolaty hands and face all over the window while waving “Hi!” to complete strangers and Wingnut slurped at the constant parade of melty ice cubes I marched in front of him (yes, I’m [...]

Lately

Today I did a lot of this.

That’s washing dishes in case you couldn’t tell.

It was also laundry day and the last load of towels just finished drying.  I might even fold them tonight instead of unceremoniously dumping them into the still full basket of unfolded towels I did last week.  Maybe not.

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You Would Think

You would think after attending a blogging conference last weekend I’d have come right home and posted all about it; how much I’d learned; all the people I’d met; how much fun I’d had.  But I didn’t.  I did learn a lot.  I did meet a bunch of great people.  I did have a lot [...]

Random Crap

Do you ever feel like you’ve been busy, busy, busy all day long yet at the end of the day you look around only to find you’ve accomplished a whole lot of nothing?  It seems I’ve been having lots of days like this lately. Wingnut had an especially rough time one night last week. [...]