Image credit: Photo by canonsnapper on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons It's summer: the season of kids around 24/7 and of subsequent blog neglect. It's also the season of summer visitors, passing through in cars bulging with luggage, fast food wrappers and warm, disheveled smiles. While some people like to do spring cleaning to prepare [...]
Posts under ‘am I really going to miss this age when they grow up?’
Golden Years
Image credit: Photo by Travis Jon Allison on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons "I don't like Agnes much," said my mother, "She's definitely no Aunt Gerty. But it's because Gerty was so wonderful that I think Uncle Fred is marrying Agnes." "What do you mean?" I asked. Uncle Fred and Aunt Gerty had been married [...]
Impatient Haiku
Praying for patience. Praying... Waiting... Stupid God! I want patience now!
Sweet Dreams
Image credit: Photo by kaneda99 on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I have a bazillion ("No," my son Austen, who is very proper about his numbers, would insist, "there's no such thing as a bazillion!" Fine then, a gajillion?) things I want to get out of my head and onto this virtual paper, but I [...]
Just For Today Challenge: November 24, 2009
Image credit: Photo by catdancing on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC 2.0 Last week, I asked you all to join the Just for Today Challenge with me, where we would all change one thing about our lives for just one day. I'll share what I did, and if you did something yourself, either share [...]
One of Those Days
Image credit: Photo by k a t m Licensed under Creative Commons I sort of want to write a post today, but I sort of want to curl up under a blanket and watch the leaves fall more. Of course, I say that, all romantic, with this great image of myself curled up with a [...]
When Yelling Works
Image credit: Photo by Scream 101 on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons There's a reason I'm not a journalist. It's one of those jobs you always think about, if you're one of those people (like me) who has considered careers in writing. But I always saw two problems with it: 1) I need to let [...]
War. What Is It Good For?
Image credit: Photo by LuluP on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I'm pretty certain that everyone who passed my daughter Janie's elementary school at dismissal time a few weeks ago now knows me by sight. Yep, I'm that woman whose daughter threw a tantrum so gigantic and so spectacular that it took us over a [...]
Tallying up my Self-Worth
Image credit: Photo by boxercab on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Last Monday I walked through the grocery store feeling like a weight was crushing my chest, a tight lump in my throat the only thing between me and tears. And part of me wanted to self-indulgently sit there on the linoleum floor under the [...]
Beware of the 8-Year-Old
Image credit: Photo by codepo8 on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Most kids (at least those who grow up in safe, middle class, American neighborhoods) don't see every new face at the front door (from evangelists to pizza delivery guys) as a potential threat. But Austen is not most kids. Unless they come bearing an [...]
