When life gets overwhelming, you can taste it in my food.  It's rushed, sloppy.  Boring ( Read more... )

From an email to aellwynde

I keep wanting to write rambly posts about what I am thinking and doing and how my kids are growing, but Life does not afford me that opportunity, at least not without sacrificing some of the other plates I am spinning.  So I only facebook it, in the in-between moments, but as a consequence I am not seeing what ELSE is being ( Read more... )

By our best reckoning, we're coming up on 7 weeks tomorrow ( Read more... )

I didn't sleep much after a really... really bad day yesterday. So when the Kinglet climbed into my bed to wake me up this morning I was not in the best of moods ( Read more... )

lady: ham and cheese and turkey pastrami and peanuts and crackers did not ease the ache in my soul. maybe these cookies will help.

God-King: Did my email about the duck not help?

lady: while cute, no, the duck did not ease my soul.

lady: the cookies came closet

Godking: The cookies came out of the closet?

Godking: Well, good for them.

Kinglet has been sick since Sunday, so his three-day school week (spring break starts Thursday) has turned out to be a no-day school week. He missed the only real snow and the only early-dismissal of the year. He's getting better, but still not well enough to go in tomorrow, so he's also going to miss the Grandparents lunch we've all been looking ( Read more... )

My energy is really rock-bottom lately. I thought it was just exhaustion from all the hullabaloo around the Kinglet's birthday, but I still can't shake it. Been going to bed at 9...8... 7pm last night, but I feel so drained that making lunch was the height of my activity today ( Read more... )

15,000 words into CRIMSON. Struggling for time to do it and fighting indecision. Have to make some important choices about story structure and order and I can't seem to do it - which in turn makes it hard to write because I don't know if what I'm writing is a first chapter or something halfway through the book. It makes a difference, aye ( Read more... )

This Mother's Day, so far, is weird. Like a step out of normal time ( Read more... )

OMG, you guys.
So.
Last weekend we went to a local Mexican restaurant for dinner. They had a new item on the menu: chile en nogada. It was love at first sight.

BUT, the waiter said they didn't have it because it is seasonal. I asked when they would have it again and he told me they'd have it for sure this week. So ( Read more... )