This week starts 3 months of awesome/crazy ( Read more... )

Things I like:
nosceIt's small, but not small ( Read more... )

I was totally wrong about suitcases. Oh god, why do I have so much stuff? So much mediocre stuff. I have culled another box of clothes to give away, of mine and Astrid's. I'll take two full size suitcases back with. I don't know how all of this - 4 suitcases a duffle, a box of food and two carry-ons - are going to fit in our passat, along with two ( Read more... )

For my reference ( Read more... )

Today I have:
*bathed myself and the kids
*eaten
*hung two loads of wash, started the third
*finished Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910.
*written some emails
*read to the boy
*swept the living room
not in that order

It is now noon.

Today I will:
*drink all the tea
*finish Slow by Carl Honore, then start in on Michael ( Read more... )

We leave for the UK this evening. Can't wait. I am so done with SoCal. I am ready to be in my own home with our own rhythms once again ( Read more... )

I enumerate, for my own memory ( Read more... )

Life is hectic, yo. I keep meaning to write about Important and Meaningful Things, but by the time I have the space and quiet to do so.... I've mostly forgotten what I wanted to say. I shall list them here and hope to get through them - shit. I typed that last sentence and Astrid woke in a snit. I am now one handed typing ( Read more... )

*Top Chef season 8. I love Top Chef. LOVE. IT. It's completely Bennett appropriate but sadly he couldn't care less.

*Laundry.

*Water. Drink of champions.

*Constant snuggles. And constant attention to my kids. Nursing, tickles, kisses, discipline - all of it.

Tonight is all about frozen pizza, red wine and the Miami Heat/Chicago Bulls game.

Our New Year's Eve ended up being different than planned, but it was good. Bennett just didn't go to sleep, so we all watched the Doctor Who Christmas special. Bennett LOVES 'Doc Who'. By the time B fell asleep there wasn't enough time to do our collage. Adam and I were in bed by 9.30. Oh yeah ( Read more... )