Elphine: You were born in England? Did you see the queen?Me: NoElphine: Why not?Me: I’m not that important.Elphine: Well, I would just go. I would just go see her. And I would wear this dress, and gloves and a purse.Me: You can’t just go see her. You have to be invited.Elphine: What do you have to do to be invited?Alouicious (interrupting): Do people wear pants there?Me: Yeah, its a normal country, like America.Ephine: Except there’s the queen.Alouicious: We could go... Read more
Putting off the two giant remaining tasks of the week–sorting through a vast pile of clothes on the floor of my bedroom, and making all this dough into bread. Feel like I’ve spun my wheels all week and accomplished nothing, although, that is probably not the case. I did do something, just don’t remember what it was. Have been mulling over the whole concept of work all week after this most excellent sermon by Matt. I mean, I know we... Read more
I don’t actually have time to write any (maybe later) but what A BRILLIANT Idea. I happened to read snips of someone else’s ghastly birth story to Matt a few weeks back and enlighten him as to the whole genre of blogging internet insanity. “Are you serious?” He asked whispered in horror.“Oh yeah,” I said, “after you give birth you have about six months, although you can push it out to a year if you’re really behind, to write a... Read more
One bag super cheap (5$) fish, frozen, dumped ( half-frozen on its way to being thawed, I mean, its fine if you have your life together enough to fully thaw whatever it is you’re planning to eat) on a baking sheet and lathered in oil, salt, pepper and curry powder. In the oven at 375 skin side up for about 10 minutes or until just beginning to brown and flaky and white when you cut into itorjust long enough to... Read more
One Maybe letting the three year old repeatedly stay up till 9pm with no nap during the day is turning out to be a bad idea. Two On the other hand, its really hard to drag her away from her coloring which she will do all day, covering page after page with one single color or coloring each tiny detail a different one. Is this obsessive compulsive? What kind of childhood developement stage is this? The need more sleep stage?... Read more
So you take a huge, practically obscene, piece of meat, pork, that you bought at 1.25$ a lb at Wegmans, and you come home with it, all your groceries, and five kids, learning, along the way, that the sixth kid has learned how to climb out of her crib just that moment, and fretting that this Wegman’s trip marks the point at which your oldest child will no longer be going in to the play place but will now, being... Read more
Blast it.And I was really hoping to spend the day sitting outside doing nothing. Now, unfortunately, I have no excuse to avoid the work of the day, which includes adding another coat to my red table, giving the children their weekly Saturday bath, picking out clothes for Sunday, coming up with a Sunday School Lesson, baking banana muffins….what is it with the insane list making? It’s like I’m stuck in a loop. Here it is after coat number three, its... Read more
Dismantling a table, nailing the top to our kitchen island/butcher block, painting the top red, picking and washing a crop of lettuce, baking banana muffins and bread, emptying bookshelves of books, rearranging the furniture in the school/play room and cooking dinner ALL AT THE SAME TIME. Actually its not fun. Its not a fun at all. And if one more child touches the bright red paint on purpose I will seriously freak out. Pictures forthcoming. Read more
I just went to Wegmans with the three little girls. Matt had to take Elpine out to lunch (she wore a super fancy new dress and shoes, a tiara in her hair, a tiny cross necklace and took a shiny black purse. She was ready to go two hours early. Apparently, said Matt, she’s very interested in boys. I don’t know what exactly about them, but there you go. Shoot.) and the boys were with one of their favorite people... Read more
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