Not content with taking off her own clothes, Amy now makes sure that all of her dolls are unencumbered as well. She is jolly and a bit silly today. Sarah slept in the living room inside her little tent. My back would never allow me such silliness. Noah is happily playing Playmobile and GameBoy today. […]

Best of the weekend: The boys working and playing together Finally making progress on cleaning the downstairs Doug making progress on clearing the forest/yard Eating meals at the table as a family Wood floors scrubbed Catching up on laundry Good quality time with husband Worst of the weekend: No bear hugs from Amy No clever […]

Doug just noticed that my blogging slows down on the weekends.

Tommy is binge eating again. I wonder how much of this is normal adolescence, how much is emotional and how much of it is sensoral issues. Today my parents took the two girls to Murfreesboro for my niece’s christening tomorrow. It is very strange to not have Amy here. It is less strange with Sarah […]

Everybody please say a prayer, light a candle or think good thoughts for Alice and her babies.

The bodies of Knoxville indigents are often sent to the Body Farm. We have no health or life insurance. I shouldn’t care what happens to my body but I am vain enough to ask that if my body has to rot in a car trunk or under a pile of leaves, could I please have […]

My mother is moving my grandmother into the least horrible nursing home they can afford today. A place where the people who once indulged us and made us feel like the most important people in the world go to be fed, diapered and medicated. Where the few still mobile wander the halls searching for something […]

None of Amy’s grandparents remembered her birthday with a phone call. One set had already given her a gift card with which we bought a sand/water table that has yet to be assembled. I finally found some decent postcards (who knew that would be so hard) and dropped them in the mail where they will […]

I hope Alice isn’t in the hospital. I wish she had taught her husband to blog so he could give updates online. Now I have to use the telephone and actually TALK to someone. I prefer the Internet over the phone.

Amy is two years old today. She is my blue-eyed, curly-haired, unexpected blessing. She came in my life after I thought I was finished having children. I also thought I was going to spend the rest of my life as a single parent, but that’s a story for our anniversary. Amy is a joyful child. […]