I love summer vacation

I love that the mornings start late and I can still listen to the birds singing while the teenagers sleep the daytime slumber of vampires. I love the suspension of time as we live without the suffocating schedule of school, homework and bedtimes. I love listening to all of the children playing (and bickering) together […]

Tommy says

“Can I just get online long enough to find articles saying there’s nothing wrong with non-stop computer use?” Both Doug and I laughed. Tommy was not amused by our reaction.

Noah says:

“My teacher always said ‘Go away bad dream’ when I walked up to her desk.” Have I mentioned lately how much we’re hoping middle school is better for Noah? Sarah certainly loved the middle school.

when, not if

Doug spent the afternoon working in our forest. Will the poison ivy symptoms appear: A. Sunday B. Monday C. Tuesday

if a tree falls on the weekend

I’m going to start a club for people who blog on the weekends. We’ll call it “I’m really lame” or “I have no life away from the computer” or “I’m seriously addicted to the Internet” or something like that. Even when our family goes out and does something, I still find time to blog every […]

Sarah says:

“The mall!” I asked her what she missed while she was away at camp this week. The only thing she told me about camp was that the director read their e-mails out loud to everyone. I tried to remember what I wrote in those short little notes. I’m pretty sure the formula for each one […]

40 years of good music

A little bit of music to mark the day. The movie will have to wait until tonight. [audio:http://domesticpsychology.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/lucy-in-the-sky-with-diamonds.mp3] Sometimes when I listen to music, I am interpreting in my head. Old habit. Trying to be true to the song’s vivid visuals while making it fit ASL syntax makes me dizzy. The good kind of dizzy […]