I can’t write lately. Not just blog posts, but stories and lesson plans and my many other writerly things are all gummed up. It’s not exactly writer’s block… that’s being stuck for ideas isn’t it? I’ll know exactly what I want to say and in a fuzzy way that’s hard to explain I even know [...]
There’s a fly in the house. The boys resent us for not building a cabin for us in the woods so we can live surrounded by insects. But a fly is in our house! Eeeeeek, ew get it awayyyy from meeee. And so on. While I caught up on a little work, the boys ate [...]
The part where nothing is settled or in the right place always puts me in a bad mood. It’s overwhelming. Nothing here is painted turquoise, all of our framed artwork is leaned against the walls, and I still can’t find the box of legos and where is the good vegetable peeler? and so on.
The strategy [...]
Every time I start to write, I want to post pictures. But then I can’t find the USB thing to put the pictures from the camera on the computer and at that point all the romance for the idea is lost, now instead of being magical pictures of childhood blog lady I’m damn it why [...]
We are planning a trip to Texas, just me and the kids because Kevin’s job is mean and won’t pay him if he doesn’t go to work. Typical corporate scum, right? So it’s at the point where I’m looking for killer deals on airline tickets and figuring out dates. But every time I mention it, [...]