It will not surprise anyone that I have many opportunities to rush around and be insane during the week. There are only two uninterrupted nights for dinner altogether (don’t feel bad for me, two is more than adequate to bear with children who can’t eat anything without flinging half of it to the floor) and there’s always something to interrupt a regular school day if we wanted. I know, in terms of the rest of America, we live a very... Read more
{pretty} Gladys draws so well and so interestingly. So much of her stuff looks like it is right out of Millions of Cats, very detailed, dark. She barely ever colors anything in. And lately, her houses look like they have eyes for windows, which she told me was on purpose. Also, I’m so glad we painted this room yellow. It’s so cold and gray out but the room provides it’s own light. {happy} Fatty Lumpkin, Ermintrude (?), what am I... Read more
In my tired fog yesterday I went winding my way around Work and Play straight to children which is what I think about most often since I am so covered with them. But of course, when we are told “and they rose up to play” the intimation is that they rose up to do lewd and inappropriate things with one another all around the golden calf. It’s not the playing of children that we’re seeing, but the ‘playing’ of full... Read more
Somehow managed to push play on the bible without really being awake and so climbed into a partial consciousness as Israel was eating and then drinking and then rising up to play in the presence of a little gold in the shape of a calf. No big deal. Except then Moses and the Levites were killing anyone with the sword that looked crossways. (That’s just my own early morning paraphrase.) Obviously it is very stupid to be that idolatrous so... Read more
It’s so hard not to start every blog post with a weather update…. Maybe because every day in Upstate New York starts out cold and gray except for those in July and August. More so I think because there are so many things to be depressed about and the weather is a nice visual to lay along side each terrible thing that comes through all the various news outlets every morning. So today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. An... Read more
one Last week I blithely went about doing school as if it was the normal and right thing to do when on day two Matt found me wandering around in a glassy eyed stupor trying to coordinate between my right and left hand not to drop a massive vat of coffee on the kitchen floor believing, wrongly, that if a little bit of caffeine is helpful, a great deal more must be of The Lord. “What are you doing?” He... Read more
I was mulling over the idea of linking up with Like Mother Like Daughter’s Pretty Happy Funny Real {phfr} today because it’s snowing and I’ll be clocking another solid day of school which means there’ll probably something funny and cute and I could have taken a picture and carried on with the mundanity of my own life. However, I really wish someone would orangize an internet day for Stupid Stupid Stupid Stupid {ssss} or We All Saw This Coming And... Read more
Matt roasted a chicken on Sunday and, wonderfully, the children only ate half of it because of the potluck, so I cut the rest of it up and did it with onion, garlic, little sweet peppers, thyme, mushrooms and the rest of his gravy and then puff pastry not top. There wasn’t any left. Not even a tiny speck. It’s becoming so discouraging how much the children eat. There wasn’t any breakfast left either–apples layered with brown sugar, butter and... Read more
Matt took Elphine out to lunch yesterday which could have caused a spiraling disaster of jealousy and woe, had anyone else discovered their whereabouts. I stood around in the kitchen lying. ” I don’t know where they are. Did you look downstairs? Hmmm. Oh well.” Then the boys decided they wanted to play something complicated and difficult that would only be messed up by little girls. So the little girls sat on the kitchen floor just whining and whining. So finally... Read more
Last week it occurred to me that the internet, upon which I am now posting, is a narrow and confining place, just like lots of other areas of life in January. Everybody gets so excited about the new year and all the weight they’re going to lose and all the changes they’re going to make. The glow of Christmas is all warm and life giving. Volumes are spilled about how a new year will bring a new dawn of peace... Read more
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