Noah – “How do people get babies?” Dad – “Well, when people love each other they sometimes decide to make a new life together.” Noah – “No, I mean HOW do they get the baby?” Mom – sensing that Dad is about to answer more than Noah is asking, “When people have sex together it […]
It’s no longer the weekend, but I’ll tell one more story in honor of Barry who is enjoying the week at Disney World. Our entire extended family went to Disney in December of 2000. It was a wonderful trip but the memory that hangs with me is about Tommy disappearing for hours in the Animal […]
Doug has been cranky all day today. He leaves early in the morning for another week in Nashville. In the past two weeks, we functioned ok for the first two days, had problems on day three and I became a total basket case by day four. So, Wednesday something will break and Thursday I’ll have […]
Doug has tried very hard today to control his temper and be tolerant of Tommy. It has made this a pleasant day for everyone. This afternoon I stretched out on Tommy’s bed for a few minutes and Amy took it as an invitation to play. She stood up on my stomach, jumped in the air […]
Straightened the living room and sat down to read the newspaper when Tommy started chanting “underwear, underwear.” Apparently there are no clean undies in his drawer and it is my job to fix that the instant he demands it. I told him to go do something while I finished the paper. He continued his underwear […]
Just took Sarah and her friend to my mother’s so they could have a sleepover without loud, messy siblings around. The drive over was hellish as Tommy irritated Doug and Doug snapped and cursed. I wish that Doug would do some soul searching about how he really feels about Tommy. Unfortunately, sending Tommy to live […]
Sarah found a friend to sleep-over. She is happy now.
Bought birthday gift for the party tomorrow and some more pin backs for Girl Scouts. Noah managed to get in trouble at school for talking when he shouldn’t every day this week. Sarah has a mope on because she can’t find someone to sleep over tonight. Amy is jolly.
My, I mean Sarah’s project is done (thanks to Doug coming to my rescue) and I am going to lie in our nice warm room (the wood stove is going) and try to relax.
Home and much happier with some new paper for my planner. I had run out and it was filling with scraps of paper that I scribbled different lists. Sarah’s project is nearly done. I told her I’d type her chart but I stink at excel so it should take me forever. Noah got in trouble […]