Subscribe“I’m OK, it’s just pain!” -Leo, age 10
Dirty Dishes
and other negelected things
Category: Family
Favorite conversation of the day
It is 7:30 in the morning and the kids are up sitting at the kitchen bar eating breakfast. They are sleepy, but slowly waking up and resigned to their fate of another day of public education. Badger, like so many seven year olds, uses his first moments of wakefulness as a time for self reflection.
“I [...]
For a minute I lost myself
We had a nice weekend, with just Badger home, even though he followed me around talking about video games at a gozillion miles an hour. And we missed Sunny and Leo tons. The days were so strangely…(I want to say quiet here but quiet isn’t right because it wasn’t quiet with all the [...]
What’s with all the hate?
There is a subject that I have been wanting to write about for a long time, but I’ve been afraid of my limited capacity to do it justice. I just get so angry and upset when I think about it that my mind goes blank. I can’t make sense of it. I [...]
They believe they can fly
This is a demonstration of what can be done with a ledge, a stairwell, a giant bean bag, two blanket-capes, and a mother who MUST BE OUT OF HER MIND.
Imagine
Sometime last week Leo and Badger were bored and looking for a way to be destructive. They each took two plastic cereal bowls out of the kitchen and taped them together with scotch tape, creating what you might call a poor mans ball. They then decided to color on them, drawing faces and [...]
What getting the ONE thing you really wanted for your brithday looks like
Happy 7th Birthday Leo!
Very Superstitious
I may have mentioned before, once or twice, that I was born and raised in the Mormon church. I spent the first 18 years if my life being indoctrinated daily, and another 10 years after that being inactive but still believing it was probably true. When I finally did the research a few [...]
Vacation, part II
Last week we went to the Oregon coast to spend an entire week in a beach house with my side of the family. Naturally we had an “AWESOME” time, as Badger would say. It had all the magic and hilarity of a large family gathering: my brother-in-law constantly breaking wind and refusing any [...]
Boredom + Markers = Fun!
My Foot Buddies and I are going on vacation….again!
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For Fun
