Yesterday was a beautiful day, the kind of day we’ve been waiting for at Foster for the past six months. The sun was shining, the air was warm, the breeze was mild, and everybody wanted to be out in it, kids and parents. When I got done teaching my Needlecrafts class at 3:30 and returned […]
Category Archives: Life
I Want to Dance
As Tamara moves into her cheer career and I’ve been posting pictures and comments, one of the more frequent sentiments I’ve heard from my friends is along the lines of, “Imagine you involved with cheerleading! That’s so unlike you!” At first, I laughed along with them and agreed. And then I realized that was wrong. […]
Swing 2.0
Kender got a new swing today. If I had been doing HabitRPG last year, today I would have accomplished the reddest of my red reddy red to-do tasks. That rider has been sitting in our shed since we put this playset up…was it 7 years ago? 8? There’s been a baby swing in that spot […]
And the Beat Goes On
I’m definitely getting into the “overwhelmed” part of the cycle of life around here. Adding up the expenses for Tamara’s cheer group just gets crazier and crazier: $70 for a uniform, $30 for regionals, $69 for nationals, $1200 to get the van road worthy, $250 for the timeshare exchange, probably $1500 for gas and hotel/camping […]
The Grocery Budget
I’m going to continue forcing the discussion of money by focusing on the grocery budget today. We all have to eat, so food is a necessary expense for everybody, right up there with housing and clothing. Some families manage to survive by what seems like magick to me, on very little money, clipping coupons and […]
Money
We love it, and we hate it. We need it, and we wish we didn’t. It is a necessary medium of exchange and an unfortunate target of vitriol. We’re never supposed to talk about it, and so we live our lives only able to speculate about what kinds of financial management are behind the lives […]
My Dailies List
In lieu of the wonderful post I thought I was going to make while I was in the shower, but promptly forgot the subject of once I had dressed, I present to you my daily to-do list. This list has the benefit of having grown organically over the past month or so based off things […]
The Little Ways We Lead Ourselves Astray
When I was growing up, I loved reading stories that had anything to do with babies and motherhood. I remember reading about the coming-of-age ritual of wearing your hair up in the Little House books, and wishing I had something like that to mark a transition for myself. I remember stories of girls who cared […]
Live
Touch it Smell it Taste it Feel it Live it! Be it Be free Be life! Stand tall Stand strong Walk proud Walk on Walk down the path you find Pay no mind to what others want you to find Don’t look behind Preach it Shout it Be loud Don’t hide Do what you believe […]
Tidbits
When the Kirby salesman comes and vacuums my living room with his Kirby vacuum and gets up all that extra dirt, I don’t hear, “Kirby vacuums are better than my vacuum.” I hear, “Gods, I’m a terrible housekeeper, and if I would just keep up with vacuuming my carpets every week, there wouldn’t be so […]