Elphine has been knocked back by some kind of unhappy cold and Marigold has been wandering around for three days talking, in her usual way, about big and little girls who are sick. She means herself but she's all about indirectness and passive aggressiveness. I read something a long time ago that said that all that matters is your birth weight. The heavier you were at birth, the healthier you'll be your whole life, and nothing you do will have... Read more
As I have mentioned before, endlessly and boringly, I'm reading through the bible again. Well, listening. Reading it conks me right out. Just so you can know how holy I am, I wake up and fall pretty rapidly into praying through my long lists. I lie there, eyes shut, back aching, trying to remember every single person or cirucmstance that needs praying for, and all the troubles and cares of life, and I start to freak out. Who wouldn't. Prayer... Read more
Who knows what the date is. It's November, right? We did a whole week of school. There was tons of whining and arguing and laziness. Midway through the week wondered if I should try to enumerate to myself all of whatever we had done, rather all that we had not done. This did help for a day or so, but then on Friday I and everyone returned to the fractiousness of earlier. So, what did we do? -We learned how... Read more
One Here we are, finally at Friday. How amazing is that. Did some school. Cooked some food. Yelled at some children. Argued with Matt. Walked the dog once. Broke down and ate some pasta. Dammit. Basically muddled through the week and didn’t die. So there’s that. Two Speaking of food, not that we were, so sue me, I had one of many tiny meltdowns this week upon arriving home from Aldi and seeing, once all the groceries were unloaded and... Read more
I know the whole world is going to hate me for this, but I thought I'd bring up the dreaded horrific, never to be mentioned this early. subject of Christmas. “Why are you bringing it up?” You might justifiably ask through powerful clenched teeth. “What are you, skipping over Thanksgiving like the pagans and running straight to the goodies?” Well, no, not skipping thanksgiving, not succumbing to worldly insanity at all, I assure you, really, totally, Stop Questioning Me!... Read more
Stayed up far far too late watching election returns. Had originally forced all the children to sit and watch the ridiculous maddening coverage–In Twenty Minutes We’ll Have Breaking News Will It Be A Big Night For Republicans Or A Bearable Night For Democrates Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla–but they, surprisingly, became bored and started jumping and climbing all over me and sloshing my very very nice glass of wine. Sent them down the basement to crash around and then yelled... Read more
Super excited to vote today. Really love the whole process of going to vote–popping down the road whenever I get a free moment, going in, finding my name in the book and signing next to it, wrestling with the huge big piece of paper and then trying to shove it the right way into the machine. Smiling happily to the ladies who sit there, election after election. It seems we are slowly growing old together, me and them, year after... Read more
Finally back into my old blogging app. Gosh. What a time I've had. Struggling along, trying to write whatever it was I was going to write on the Internet itself in a tiny tiny box. Life is mostly a veil of tears. But occassionaly the sun comes out, as it has today, and order and the Internet and technology are restored, and we try to carry on as before. Also, I should note, I slept really well last night. This... Read more
One Another busy week with virtually no blogging to show for it. Kept trying to write something interesting and clever, but then the Internet went down, and I had nothing to say, and so I just kept folding over the cover of my device and wandering away. If blogging is the true measure of my self worth, then I am a true failure. Of course, that is also true if parenting is the measure, or keeping a clean orderly house,... Read more
My goodness it is hard to wake up any more. I am a deep hater of day light savings time but maybe it won’t be such a terrible thing right now. I can just reserve my rage for when we lose the hour later on. Marigold had a happy birthday, as far as I can tell. Everyone was crashing around so that I was really in the way of losing my mind. Alouicious came at the end of the day... Read more
Preventing Grace
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