(along with a smattering of this and that) The back-to-school ads are starting back up already. Like seeing Christmas displays on the heels on Halloween discounts, I'm feeling pushed in a direction I'm not ready to go. Please just let me go to the park in peace! We have two full weeks left of July! La la la...I can't hear you, Target … [Read more...]
Whereupon God knocks me out of Bed and I stop…
...seeking my happiness in external signs of accomplishment. "Mom," my son said. "Stop being creepy." "I'm not!" I replied, taking a photo at the stoplight. BOOM! That was the sound of God turning my world completely upside down. (Not really.) (Actually, I just fell out of bed.) (Seriously, though? How many grown women fall out of … [Read more...]
Bloom Where You’re Planted
This will be just a brief meditation because I have got to start cleaning the garage. See? It's dusty. It's cluttered. It's crowded. It scares me. How on earth will I be ready for a grad party? It's only {gasp} ten days away! "I'll show you, Mama! You get the work done by playing Monopoly with me!" That's what HE thinks, … [Read more...]
1000 Words
I blinked and this week ran away from me. Sometimes the calendar is so full-to-bursting--with track meets, lacrosse games, speech therapy, piano--that it's all I can do to STOP. Full stop. Breathe in...breathe out...signs of spring...gratitude. … [Read more...]
Drained to the Dregs
That's how I feel some days. But it's good! It's all good! I can honestly say that this Lent's going well. (If by "well" I mean that I'm failing miserably. I'm failing miserably at doing penance because my penance is always food-related and I do NOT do well at food-related penance. "Hi, my name is Margaret and I'm addicted to food. Please tell … [Read more...]
A Lament, a Recipe, yet another Poem
So the thing about inadvertently dying one's hair black is... When your gray roots grow in, you have a skunk stripe. It's the Pepé le Pew look! (Goes with my French temperament.) * * * These cookies. Trust me. You want to bake them. * * * Yes, I know, another poem. Indulge me, please; it's a good one. I … [Read more...]
Stories on a Sunday
I have exactly one hour before I meet my friend Tracy for pizza. (I love meeting Tracy! Especially when she offers to treat.☺) That means, however, this must be quick quick quick, like one of those stream-of-consciousness exercises you do in high school English. One of our back-to-back birthday girls with her requested Lethel Chocolate … [Read more...]
In which I inadvertantly dye my hair black and attend a Garth Brooks concert
...We interrupt this blog's normal High Brow Reporting with a completely ridiculous and irrelevant post... Last Friday night started out normally. Well, "normally" for me, anyway, in that I was getting ready to go out with friends and was using that as an excuse to color my hair. (These days I need a good excuse because coloring my hair … [Read more...]
Weigh-In Wednesday: a Whole30 Fail, a Homeschool Win, and a Truly Desperate Plea for Counsel
Yes, well. About that {2nd} Whole30 venture... I don't know what to tell you. One minute I was fine and the next minute, I'd fallen. Literally! My will power lasted about one whole minute. When in doubt, blame the chocolate cupcakes. I don't know. Somehow it seemed easier when I did it this summer. Back then I had more … [Read more...]
My Messy Life
"I love you, George!" "I love you too, Mommy." "Well, I love you all the way up to heaven!" {George, thinking.} "Well, I love you all the way up to heaven's ceiling!" A blurry picture but you get the point. Oh, to be a kid again! Yesterday, I said that 4-year-olds were awesome. Today, (and always), I'm thinking that 5-year-olds are … [Read more...]
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