So we threw a birthday party for our middle kid this weekend and even though our birthday parties are reasonably modest affairs, at one point during the post-party lull, my husband added up the tab and we both just about fainted. But it was WORTH it, even though we've spent our grocery … [Read more...]
Things That Sometimes Happen
So something very bad almost happened to us last night. We were at my parent's house for dinner, and I was sitting beside The Girl. My husband had little kid duty and I was squabbling with my dad and taking an extra-large helping of mashed turnips - seriously, they're delicious - when The … [Read more...]
A Really Long Post About Oatmeal
My husband is normally up and gone an hour before we even get up in the mornings, but last week saw him drinking coffee in the kitchen one day as the kids headed off to school. The kids waved out the door, he drank down his coffee, and as he kissed me goodbye, he said "I am SO, SO SORRY, … [Read more...]
Old Foods and New Years
There are some things that my mom made when I was a child that I still remember with a poignant, nostalgic hunger: cinnamon buns at Christmas with white frosting and red maraschino cherries on the top (memorable because my mother, a responsible mother of the 70s and 80s, shunned red food colouring); … [Read more...]
New Year, New Promises
Everyone is back to school/work today! I spent much of yesterday feeling a bit downcast about this, but now that everyone is out the door and my house is quiet - except for the happy Baby, playing with her Littlest Pet Shop toys from Christmas, and singing Jingle Bells again, God help me - it's … [Read more...]
Almost Next Year
It's almost impossible for me to believe that it's nearly 2009, which sounds like a freaky-leaky sci-fi year and not a year that we actually will be LIVING in. I think that in my mind, real years start with 19-something, despite the fact that 2/5 of my household were born in the 2000s and another … [Read more...]
There We Went A-Caroling
We took a large group of little girls caroling on the weekend, which I'd dreaded for the past week. Last week, I walked around in this state of just constant stress - I'm having a ZILLION people over for Christmas dinner! I was taking a ZILLION little girls caroling on Saturday! And so I'd wake up … [Read more...]
Oh, The Weather Outside Is Frightful
Another snow day! On the last one, ten kids made it to school, which amuses me. The Girl has heard such wonderful things about snow days that she's insisting that she MUST GO, which also amuses me - I would never, ever have voluntarily missed out on a chance to legitimately Not Go To School as a kid … [Read more...]
All Crying, All The Time
We've just finished one of those insanely busy December weekends - we celebrated Saint Nicholas Day, my oldest daughter was in three play performances, we went to see Santa at the Legion AND it was my husband's birthday yesterday, so we had company over last night, too. Oh, and we're all getting … [Read more...]
The First Batch of Christmas Cookies
Today is a snow day, and so one my kids has gone back to bed and the other one is working quietly on a massive box robot in the living room and yet another one of my kids is eating bananas and watching Little Bear. My husband called me from the drive to work, telling me that he was driving behind … [Read more...]
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