I have it in mind to actually stand up in a few moments and make cauliflower soup. However, the perfect quiet currently surrounding me makes it really hard to actually go do it. The minute I go in the kitchen the hue and cry for food will overwhelm me like the flooding basement of last week. Elphine, Gladys and Romulus all stayed home from school today, all weeping, while Alouicious, the baby and I went. Alouicious was also weeping. He wanted to... Read more
I, as usual, never intended such a long blog break. Actually, I intended no break at all. Life has recently hit us like a tidal wave. Matt, as you probably know, severed his Achilles tendon completely about a week before our school year started. His surgery took place the first day of school. Since then we’ve been adjusting to life at a much faster pace (by that I mean getting up and being to school dressed and sane four days a week)... Read more
I, as usual, never intended such a long blog break. Actually, I intended no break at all. Life has recently hit us like a tidal wave. Matt, as you probably know, severed his Achilles tendon completely about a week before our school year started. His surgery took place the first day of school. Since then we’ve been adjusting to life at a much faster pace (by that I mean getting up and being to school dressed and sane four days a week)... Read more
It hasn’t really sunk in that we’re going to have a sixth baby in a bit. Besides initially forgetting to call the doctor and then almost forgetting to go, we’ve been flying along at such a chaotic pace that I haven’t given it any real thought. ‘So, you’re half way there’ said my doctor this last Tuesday. ‘Really? Are you sure,’ I said, ‘it can’t be as bad as that.’ And also, I had my due date marked on my... Read more
I’m really supposed to be fussing around running the vacuum and going through my to-do list, or something, but the kids are all down for a rest and I can’t resist the temptation to sit here a few minutes longer in the calm and quiet. One I think its hysterical that Paladino for the People beat Rick Lazio in the Republican primary here in NY and that the very next day he announced that ‘Andrew is just the status Cuomo’.... Read more
Forcing the children to wake up at 6:30 three mornings in a row came back to bite me this morning as they all climbed in at 6:25 baying and crying for chocolate milk. Chocolate milk! at 6:30 in the morning? I staggered downstairs and found an entire gallon of said milk in the fridge–I didn’t dream and remember about it all night, but the children Did remember that some very lovely people dropped it off yesterday along with a tray... Read more
The leaves on the hill outside my window are changing already. I have it in my mind that the fall colors always peak on October 10th. This is the arbitrary and unscientific date that I have fixed upon, probably because for the first four years of marriage I was pretty sure that Matt’s birthday was the 10th, not the 7th. Last year the leaves didn’t peak on the 10th. Every year I worry, as indeed this year, that it won’t... Read more
Used to go to Mt. Savior for Compline every now and then. The service is less than half and hour and the drive was about 50 minutes, but worth every moment. Have been singing this hymn with the kids for a few months now, before bed. Read more
Matt’s gone and snapped his Achilles tendon, as you all probably noticed from facebook (why is that always our First Instinct now? I don’t really want an answer to that question). Looks like he’ll be having surgery in short order. And, because these sorts of things change everything, I’ll be dragging myself out of bed without tea in the morning, and also celebrating for the first time in this church. Never occurred to me to bother before, too busy holding babies or... Read more
Some of you around the country have already started school, or so it appears from facebook and twitter. Not so with me. Official school starts exactly two weeks from today. TWO WEEKS! Actually, I just read this post and now feel like I’m just whining. What are we doing for school? you ask. Well, various things. A group of families, as I mentioned on this blog months ago, have been meeting together to start a Classical School in the Binghamton... Read more
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