I nap in my comfy chair in the early morning while the Kinglet gets ready for school. He's mostly self-sufficient now; I just have to set an alarm to remind myself to remind him to Do All the Things (brush your teeth/hair, put on deodorant, open the front door, be ready for your ride). Then I call the Empress down, make her breakfast, pack her ( Read more... )

I wanted to save this FB post from certain loss in obscurity.

With thanks to This Guy: my mood today if it were a song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzoD8DMWDs0&fbclid=IwAR2fVx_OdDi3pyjR-UBi09nTJWjgh68_7PnEXnPioOifsM-B_NBMcZpEqro

I remember sitting outside the BrewHaha cafe on days like this--rainy and cold--on the roof, looking down on Newark ( Read more... )

So my mother died ( Read more... )

When my parents moved into their retirement community, they befriended two neighbors in particular: a tiny, sharp-talking woman named Gina (short for Regina) and a down-on-his-luck fellow named Gary.

Gina reminded my Dad of his sister Jean (also short for Regina) --  also tiny and sharp-tongued -- who died a few years back.  Gina lived alone across ( Read more... )

There's a lot I wanted to get done today.  Bought some this-and-thats, mostly for the baby's room, that I want to sort through.  Also, today is a worry-about-money day.  Have to balance the checkbook and figure out how to float the bill payments against this week's paycheck.  Also, we need groceries.  Didn't go last night because I was in too much ( Read more... )

Bad night.

This pregnancy has been pretty plain awful, physically.  I think I mentioned that.  Everyone asks a pregnant lady how she's feeling, but I don't think anyone really wants to hear "This is torture and my due date can't come fast enough and, oh, by the way, thank the GODZ my husband got snipped because I'm never getting pregnant again, ever ( Read more... )

This is my Mommy. Her name is Sharon.


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On Monday morning I had surgery to correct some problems of the female-persuasion. The procedures went well but I did find myself one of the 4% minority who gets to experience temporary, um, complications. Less than fun ( Read more... )

Rough day ( Read more... )

The Kinglet is currently watching "The Cat in the Hat Movie" for the like the tenth time in three days. I have no problem with him watching the same thing over and over because kids do that - I watched "Annie" start to finish to start to finish a million times over when I was his age. (Then again I also watched "The Blue Lagoon" obsessively, ( Read more... )