Week 1 is done. It sucked, but not because the children were out of school and daycare. I had help with them from kimkimkaree and both grandmas and a Nature camp in the mornings for Lucas. It sucked because of grown-up stuff: hormones and money and stress and stupid bureaucratic bullshit designed to complicate my life-unnecessarily! It's over and, boy, am I ( Read more... )

I'm feeling a bit better now.  Thanks to those who have listened to my bellyaching lately. (Especially Ian!)

I ran at the gym yesterday: 28 minutes running on the treadmill, which is less than I had been used to doing, but then I had to take a 13 day break with the sick kids. By then end of it my knees hurt-the front, outer parts underneath my ( Read more... )

What the fuck?!?!

I'm busting my ass to get said ass to the gym three to four times a week these days. I'm still in the ramping up phase of working out-it's not exactly a habit yet. (Which means, I'm driving myself on sheer willpower, vanity, and the hopes that I'll live long enough to see my kids grown up.) I'm running and lifting weights. Today I ( Read more... )

Lucas now can whistle. He's been working on this for a year or so. He wants to be a better whistler than his Papa. Not gonna happen. Nobody's a better whistler than my dad. But hey, the kid's gotta have dreams. So he's practicing all the time-in the house, in the car-and it's driving us batty.

Asher can now walk backward. And, as of Monday, he has ( Read more... )

Observation
Sometimes it seems to me that my life operates on along the track of a single continuum, with terminal ends of clean and dirty. All day, every day, it seems, I find myself and my children and my household situated somewhere along that single spectrum. Sometimes we are moving toward dirty and sometimes toward clean, but always our present ( Read more... )

I get four blessed hours all to myself this morning. So, of course, I'm spending some of it rambling to the internetz.

We got our second CSA box this morning. Opening it was like having Christmas morning in June-that's what Ian said so you know it must be truly exciting! We got: 1.5 pounds of summer squash (the yellow kind that look like bumpy UFOs ( Read more... )

... If You're Us
 

1. Grow a grass dish garden and make felted bunnies and gnomes. It's been way crafty around here. Lucas and I have both been needle felting, inspired by springtime, my storytelling class, and a volume of stories called The Tales of Tiptoes Lightly.
2. Pose for
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It's been exactly three months since Ian and I started our Atkins dieting. We are very pleased with our results! We have both reached our weight goals, we feel terrific, and we're putting our skinny clothes to use again! Ian's lost 26 pounds and I've lost 21. Bye bye, baby weight! It has been wonderful being able to work on this together and to ( Read more... )