Happy Fourth

Since everyone, everywhere is on vacation, I think I’ll spend the long weekend visiting your empty homes. I’m going to take showers in your clean, functional bathrooms and relax in your air conditioned living rooms. I’m going to do all my laundry in your dryers that don’t have to run three cycles to dry one […]

bueller? bueller?

In my continued affort to expose my children to the classics, tonight we watched “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” and they loooved it.

adaptation

The speaker on sarah’s cell phone has been broken for several months, meaning she could hear the other caller, but they couldn’t hear her. Last week she explained how she communicates when she isn’t text messenging friends. “They ask me yes or no questions and I push a key once for yes and twice for […]

dental anxiety

I sat back in the dental chair, feeling the room sway along with my stomach and listening to my heart, beating as though it would burst from my chest, yet paralyzed and unable to run screaming from the room as I wished I could do. The dainty hygienist gently peeked inside my mouth with her […]

rate your school/professor

Although it’s entertaining and informative to read the reviews at your child’s school, it’s downright hysterical to go back and read the reviews of your old college professors.

world’s longest nap

Amy is nested in her bed right now.  “I’m resting until Gabriel gets here.”  Gabriel arrives late on Friday or early on Saturday.

In the news

Hit the road Jack and don’tcha come back no more, no more. Worse than a full diaper pail. People with more money than brains (or hearts). Ummm, any use for small human urine?

Full of holes

I really like Kristyk’s quote today. “The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by often falling” Lucretius I was also touched by Philip’s words. “I cannot teach my children how to live if I stop living myself.”