Image credit: Photo by "T"eresa on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons So, I found out last week (much to my disappointment) that I am not the Ultimate Ruler of the Universe. In fact, I'm not even a competent Ultimate Ruler of Me. Maybe some of you knew that already. Actually, I knew that already, but [...]
Posts under ‘sleep deprivation’
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 (A Little Late)
Image by: catdancing on Flickr Licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 I had planned to post this on Tuesday, but it turned out to be a completely crazy day, and of course, yesterday was my day of rest. This week I focused on sleep (and fighting with God). The day started out badly. I accidentally ate [...]
Just for Today Challenge: December 1, 2009
Image by: catdancing on Flickr Licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 Wow, December first already. A side benefit of this "Just for Today Challenge" is that one day a week, I know what the date is. But no, knowing what the date is was not my own challenge for this week. This week, I was going [...]
Party Pooper
Image credit: Photo by jennifer buehrer on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I'm a party pooper. I'm a downer. I'm no fun. I ruin other people's good times. (Because I totally have control over other people's good times, you know.) You see, yesterday Mark and I had plans to take the kids to a pumpkin [...]
Summer Vacation
Image credit: Photo by emdot on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons There is a parable in the book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People about a person who works harder and harder to saw down a tree because of a perception that there is no time to stop, take a break and sharpen the saw. [...]
The Leisurely Life of a Stay-at-Home Mom
Image credit: Art by georgia.g on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons When my son was first born, I actually spent some time doing that thing that we stay-at-home moms supposedly spend our lazy, bon-bon eating days doing: I watched television. Now, I know, folks who haven't actually been stay-at-home parents to a colicky infant -- [...]
Caring for Myself
Image credit: Photo by hyperbolic pants explosion on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons There's a picture of me somewhere, when my son was a few months old, sitting at the computer and uploading pictures of him to share. I got lots of advice to sleep when the baby slept. I was told by plenty of [...]
Feeding the Emptiness
Image credit: Photo by Djuliet on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Many years ago, before we had children, my husband bought me a small fish tank for my birthday. At the time, I wanted a car. I didn't really think he could buy a car, but I was relying on a very iffy public transit [...]
Permission to Sleep
Image credit: Photo by Ekler on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I have always loved the end of the day, when everyone else is asleep and I can finally be alone with my thoughts. When I was a child, I would fight sleep so that I could spend more time indulging in the wonderful escape [...]
