I’ve been dreading this day for years, dreading how it was going feel. It was the last day of preschool for the last child. Julia is my baby. We’re done. We’ve done milked this thing as long as anyone could. This place and these people have been part of our life for 28 years. Week […]
Okay, this story is just too damned good not to share. It’s the Hula Hoop Story. This is the story: A mom and dad bought their four year old son a hula hoop. He probably can’t hula, but that’s okay. They’re being nice to the kid. In the car on the way home, the kid
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a superb weekend. Yesterday morning I took Tim over to my parents to see the digger dig up their back yard. They’ve got a project going on and Tim looooves equipment. (He has even referred to my Kitchen Aid mixer as, “the equipment.” Power tools, yah, yah.) The guy dug, the bucket scraping against the
Oh well, this has been the quietest week ever, almost absurdly silent. Maria had a friend here for the evening, and they baked the sour dough starter, the friendship bread. The fragrance of vanilla and cinnamon filled the house and even the yard. Thursday we did make it to preschool with the 24 Amazing Princess
Last night and tonight were Academic Awards night at the high school. It’s a special occasion and tonight I thought how we take it for granted now, and what IS that about? The first time was when John was a freshman. An invitation came in the mail and John told us we’d have to dress
We finally made it to the lake last night about bedtime. t.c. was there waiting at the top of his lungs. Jay built a fire. I deep fried the shrimp. They played 500 while I read a magazine and the kids went nuts with the Polly Pockets and fighting guys. a toad they let go
Tonight we were in the office, and Jay said, “I wonder if I put my lunch in the fridge here or upstairs? I can’t remember.” We looked, and there it was, safe on the shelf. But then we started laughing about other lunch stories… and I do love dumb stories… One night last winter, Jay
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I was home from work today by lunchtime, and it was looking like another long, boring afternoon for the kids, stuck in the hoooouse…we’re cracking uuuup. (I am, anyway. They seem a little batty too.) The gloom, ugh. So I persuaded James that we should go to the university, to the museum of natural history–you
Tonight we were down in the office working, and Lydia appeared with her empty retainer case. She had this retainer back when she was really small, like six. A molar had to come out early, so the retainer was mostly to hold that space open, blah, blah, blah. She wore it for years and it
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