We spent the weekend actively re-charging our mental energy, which sounds like a new age load of crap but really means that we ate good soup at Panera instead of cooking at home and rested and watched movies together and restored a nice level of clean to our apartment.
Two days into the week, yes – [...]
I wasn’t a very good mother today. This week was full of all the snot and sore throats and resulting needy crankiness, and I don’t know – those are reasons maybe why by Friday I’d be overloaded. But they’d also be reasons to throw your weight behind this mothering thing and work extra hard [...]
If you’re a crafty type, you know what the itch feels like. Once a new idea or desire to try some new thing gets stuck in your brain, you can’t relax until it is done. It’s got to be closely related to OCD, only instead of checking or grooming? You buy art supplies.
Lately the thing [...]
I know we live in a first world country and are therefore pampered every minute of our silly lives, but relative to most of our days: today was crappy.
I’m too tired to detail it, and I want to wake up early tomorrow so we can refresh the week by having waffles or something but just [...]
All of this talk about peanut butter in the news is making me crave peanut butter candy, cookies, and other junk. It’s pretty mean. The media knows how easily influenced we are.
Today was one of those days where I feel like a mama possum. Do a quick Google image search if you need a visual [...]