I’ve got to clean the house. There’s no way around it. Having, in a spasm of sheer idiocy, purchased a vat of cheep “maple” syrup, less than two days ago, I am now faced with a kitchen entirely covered in high fructose corn syrup. Not only so, but the entire vat has been consumed. There isn’t any syrup left, at all. I realize, of course, that this should not surprise me. I should have known and expected it. What else... Read more
I was wildly blogging yesterday, because, well, if I didn't, something terrible might happen. And then l pushed Post, or whatever that little icon is in the corner of my screen, and then I hounded Matt to read it, because that's the way it is. I write, and then he has to be nagged into submission. And then he finally did, after stopping four or five times to attend to Facebook notifications…..oh how I hate Facebook notifications….and then he said,... Read more
Woke up fretting about an old way of singing Psalm 19 that I've sort of taught to the kids but know that there are more verses, as in the verses of the psalm itself, and that I should definitely spend the rest of the day googling and trying to find it. Flipped on my phone and found some sort of version of it almost immediately. So, I guess there's nothing left for me to do…. Except, you know, put everything... Read more
One I don't have time to blog. I'm at Cana Synod and it turns out 8am morning prayer comes really early in the morning, even if you do wake up at five. Two I just wasted all my time deleting a huge pile of blog spam. Oh how I hate blog spam. Oh how I wish I knew something about anything and could get rid of it without actually having to personally wade through all the drivel. Yes I know... Read more
I happened to mention on Facebook last night that I cleaned the office. This was true, in the very strictest construction of that word, “clean”. I did put things away and run the vacuum. And I also “cleaned” a bunch of other rooms, like the living room and dining room and school room and bathrooms. Because, you know, the dirt was piling up. But the only reason the picture above looks like it does is because I forced Matt to... Read more
It's been a long long school year and it's not quite over, although almost, and so I thought I'd do one of those laborious moment by moment/blow by blow accounts of an average day. I love it when other people do this, mostly because it gives me a further opportunity to feel anxious about my own life, but also because it's so interesting to see how other people live. Anyway, here's a glossy account of yesterday as best as I... Read more
I have a great sorrowful well of guilt growing into an ever fatter slough of despond about my inability to comment on my own blog. Here I am, day after day, posting with an unnecessary fury, adding an ever greater pile of superfluous words to the bilge of the Internet, and then so many of you comment! And say interesting things! And ocassionaly ask questions and give helpful advice! And I toil through my spam and publish them, and instead... Read more
I've really got to leap up and run around and get Elphine to the dentist. Why do I keep making Monday morning appointments!? Why don't I press them for the afternoon?! Don't answer that. It does seem that we are always going to the dentist but that is only because there are so many of us and we all have to go twice a year, basically, if we don't completely forget. And when we do forget then I have to... Read more
One My weather app says that it’s cloudy right now, and like 40 degrees. Apparently it’s not snowing. So whatever is falling from the sky and blanketing the landscape must be just clouds. Yesterday, looking out the window in disgust and horror, Marigold cried out, “I hate the snow now.” Yes, my child, we all hate the snow now. Probably even more, the people getting married tomorrow likely hate the snow. And perhaps all the birds who are this minute... Read more
It’s been so dark and gray this week, and chilly. I cleaned the school room on purpose that we could go out there and be productive, but no one has the heart to continue to huddle up around the heaters. It’s just too much. So we’ve retreated the living room where, even though it’s very dark, even with all the lights on, at least it’s warm. And now, because we’ve been in there for three days, it’s trashed, I mean... Read more
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