Day two of the boy's spring break. (Which, no, is not the same as the girl's spring break.) He was invited to spend all day yesterday down at the beach with a friend's family--they took their RV down for maximum fun and comfort! He has an overnight with another friend tonight (his bestie, who is moving to Brooklyn this summer with his family, so ( Read more... )

We're back home after spending five-ish days with my parents for Christmas. It was a very nice trip--honestly, probably the most relaxing and enjoyable Christmas in recent memory. The drive is a major drag, and this was the second trip in about a month since we went for Thanksgiving as well, but if all goes according to plan, we maybe won't have to ( Read more... )

I finished the first draft of my novel this morning ( Read more... )

It feels like it's been a really long week already ( Read more... )

Or: summer writing? I wrote 122,000ish words during the school year. I'm so close to finishing a draft of this thing, but I also want to enjoy summer with the kids (and since they're in different school districts with vastly different vacation schedules, summer is a weird, long season of having one or the other home and still having to drive people ( Read more... )

Personally, I seem to have not noticed a third of the year flying by. Whoops ( Read more... )

Have I mentioned before that my MIL manages to break something every time she visits? And there's no anticipating--you hide the most fragile stuff and she breaks something you wouldn't have thought possible. It's a curse, of sorts. We try to just roll with it. Anyway, this time it's the hand-held shower head. She dropped it. The head part broke off ( Read more... )

My back is cranky all the time these days, so I'm trying to get back to sitting at my desk on my "postureball" when using my computer. As opposed to lounging around on the couch or the bed ( Read more... )

... from our travels, safe and sound. The cat is well (our friend checked in on her a few times while we were gone), but happy to be outside after being cooped up. We had a pretty fast, uneventful drive home, but I'm sick to death of making that trek. We've been talking about moving back to the Bay Area so we can be near my family. We've pretty ( Read more... )

With the kids being in two different school districts, I only have four days in the whole month of December when both are in school for a whole entire day. Today is the first of those days, and I hardly know what to do with myself!!

I made a plan to give people homemade gifts for the holidays, so I could spend the morning making coasters or lemon ( Read more... )