On my facebook feed yesterday, two different people announced they were having a baby. Cute baby announcements, with the older siblings beaming. And I wasn’t jealous. That’s my normal response to baby announcements. Jealousy. Maybe not jealousy – maybe wistful is a better description. A little bit oh-I-wish-I-was-pregnant-too going on. But yesterday – …
Monthly Archive: January 2015
Jan 29
Literary Snapshots from the Blizzard of 2015
(Literary, because my camera isn’t working – and there are more than enough pics of three feet of snow dumped on us) – The shock and dismay upon realizing that the heat is broken on Tuesday morning. The blizzard hit late Monday night, and we woke up to SNOW everywhere. But before I could get …
Jan 25
Turning 41 is SO much better than turning 40
I was scared to turn 40. It seemed so momentous to me, like it was such a major milestone, and I wasn’t ready to meet it. But turning 41, that’s just lovely. I had the nicest of days today yesterday, given that I’m still kind of sick. We’ve all had a bad cold, and it’s …
Jan 22
The dreaded cold
We don’t get sick all that often around here. My oldest had ear infections all the time when she was a baby, but other than that, we’re a relatively healthy family. My youngest has never been on an antibiotic, and I think Sam was once, maybe. Allergies – we all have some form of seasonal …
Jan 19
They Just Keep Growing
I had a moment last night, where all three of the kids were bopping around the house, and they all seemed SO BIG to me. Each one wandered by me within the space of about ten minutes, and each one seemed somehow taller, more articulate, more… developed, for lack of a better word. If …
Jan 18
Kindergarten
We’re almost there. Somehow, the fact that January came is now pushing the kindergarten enrollment into the forefront of my mind. My youngest will be starting full time school in September, and in a very real sense, my whole world is going to change. I’m facing some choices, like should I go back to work …
Jan 07
Driving in the Snow
I’m old. That’s the best explanation I can come up with. I’ve turned into one of those little old ladies who’s afraid to drive when there’s snow coming down. I scorned these women, in my not-so-distant-youth. These wimps, these babies. These hyper-afraid, making themselves weak women who insisted that they didn’t drive in the snow. …
Jan 05
Perspective Matters
That’s my theme for the year. Because I don’t think things happen for a reason, I think crappy things happen sometimes for no reason at all. But I do believe that your perspective on it all matters more than anything else. Each year, I read my blog from the year before. One thing that really …
Jan 01
2014 – My Favorite Posts
I don’t have a big blog, and it’s never been a blog that attracted a lot of comments. Which is fine, I’m not complaining, but it does make it a big more challenging to do a “Here are the top blog posts from the past year based on the number of comments” sort of round …
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