Laylee: Isn’t my doll wonderful? Me: Yep. Laylee: She has a hat AND a purse. Her purse is so small. She can only carry really really tiny things like… like choking hazards… and other tiny things. Oh Ginny, Ginny who is called Beth by small illiterate preschoolers in my household, why you gotta go down [...]
I think the rats are gone. If not, I’m giving them the silent treatment. Is that cruel? If it is, please comment on this post and tell me that I have no right to be a mother because of the way I treat animals. I always love that. We are warm and cozy and have [...]
WE HAVE POWER!!! Early Thursday morning the trucks rolled in. The men from Montana in rubber pants and jackets stood out in the pouring rain with generators, cranes and hand tools. An hour later my dishwasher was running, the house was warming up and I had the ability to crimp my hair if I so desired. [...]
I have a few minutes at a friend’s house to type a quick blog entry and thaw my toes and my children. A major windstorm hit the Seattle area Thursday night, knocking down trees and leaving millions of residents without power, so says my hand-crank radio and the guy who lives inside it. My local [...]
I’ve noticed a disturbing trend over the last few years in our media. There is an increased use of the song, My Favorite Things, as an anthem of Christmas and I think it’s just wrong. I can offer plenty of evidence for this. First of all, Fräulein Maria sang it to the children in the middle [...]
