Stormy weather interfered with my plans to take everyone to a park today. Maybe we can do something fun tonight. What we really need to do is buy groceries. School starts in less than two weeks. I’m looking forward to Sarah and Noah’s new teachers and adventures but dreading Tommy’s so much I feel physically […]

Umm, I guess India has gotten past the stigma of condoms.

One happy camper is back home and that makes everyone at home happy campers. “Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.” Garrison Keillor

I have made a note on September 19th in my overstuffed Franklin planner. If you mark it in your calendar you won’t be confused when you read my blog entry that day.

Bathe, wash hair, get dressed, take dog to vet, bring dog home, get toddler down for nap, work on laundry, unload dishwasher, reload dishwasher, straighten upstairs, load up children, drop noah at grandmother’s work, pick up sarah at camp, drive back home, more laundry and whatever else comes up during the day.

I am a human barometer. When the rain is near my head hurts. The slower the rain builds the worse my head gets. After the rain my head slowly gets better. We need a room in our house where we can control the air pressure and humidity.

Half-naked Thursday 

While lying on the couch wondering if my brain was about to leak out of my ears Noah quietly spoke to me. In a voice just above a whisper he said “Mom, from now on I’d like a babysitter whenever you have errands. Let’s start today. I’m at babysitter dot com and it looks pretty […]

Mir is making polygamy sound pretty good today.