I am tired. TAh-erd. Despite now (mostly) sleeping through the night, I am still bagged by the end of every day. Something about the work/kids/life/marriage/exercise/home/friends balance (or lack thereof) is just taking it out of me. I know I'll look back on these busy days and be thankful for how … [Read more...]
my life is like a volkswagon bus
Remember the Guiness Book of World Records? Remember the contest to see how many people you could jam/ stuff into a volkswagon bus? Before it got unsafe? Or someone lost an eye? Or perished? Or went missing? Or great damage was done? As we do, they likely discovered that they could always … [Read more...]
The End Is (Pio)neer
It seems there are a plethora of skills that generations before ours had to master, out of necessity, that we have been able to, in this modern age, live without: things like sewing, knitting, canning, farming, hunting and giving birth in beet fields.They are all things that people can now pick up … [Read more...]
Wisdom, Granted
Wisdom, they say, is wasted on the young. But in the case of these lovely picture books full of sage advice, a few things might just stick to help the middle-years kids on their way... Instructionsby Neil GaimanHarperCollinsISBN: 978 0 06 196030 7Audience: grades 3-6Gaiman, a master of the … [Read more...]
Those Eyes.
The strangest thing happened to me today. I was meeting my uncle, my mom's younger brother, for coffee. It had been a while since I had seen him, maybe even the two years since my mom died, I'm not sure. A while. I sat down and looked over at him and I was hit by a bolt of lightening. Those … [Read more...]
The Finish Line
I passed my real estate exam! This year has been more than a little crazy: completely renovating our home, having a third baby, starting the real estate course when she was four weeks old, committing to an intense boot camp exercise regime at 6 o'clock in the mornings, totally changing my … [Read more...]
Wishes
I wish:I could stay home part time with my kids. I want to bake, garden, play play dough, sing, dance, read, write, hike, canoe.... things I did a lot more often with the girls when I was working half time.I had more time for work (I know, a contradiction) so I could plan the best, most … [Read more...]
Work Life Balance
At the office, I have photos of Pea on my desk, pictures on my desktop and little trinkets that remind me of her while I'm toiling away like a monkey at the metaphorical typewriter (sometimes not so metaphorical). But last Thursday, I had the real deal! A series of gaffes meant that Pea, … [Read more...]
36
Last year, on July 5th - seventeen days before my 35th birthday I lost one of my greatest friends to leukemia. She was 35 and had three children aged 1, 4 & 7.Two days after that, on July 7th Seans Oma died. And the day after my 35th birthday, July 23 my Nana died.If this past year … [Read more...]