......I can FEEL the lava rising as the day proceeds ( Read more... )

It was a rather long and lonely evening...consequent from a discussion Chris and I had after dinner in reference to one of the guys at work.  Seemingly in his own tidal wave of chaos, involving a doped up wife embezzling money from the company to "feed her needs."  Just tip toeing around the subject matter of drugs, draws my defences against him... ( Read more... )

I was swapping some clothes in the laundry room when Carmen came to show me that she had completed her homework.  The way she walked up, set funny to me, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it without interrupting her already half in conversation.  Then, I noticed HOW she was talking...in something of a younger, "babyish" voice.  That's always ( Read more... )

Chris had to run to El Paso Thursday night, and I was afraid that was going to bleed into the weekend plans that we had.  I guess given the fact the opted NOT to stop by for a hello at Dad and Frida's (ah...sniff, so sad) ensured that he would make it home by Friday evening.  YAY!
Saturday morning, Shawn and Doug (whom we LOVE!) came over bright and ( Read more... )

That's the count since the last post, I guess...hell, I'll need two more, to catch up on what I've been catching up on.

Reflection is key though...and I guess that's why I"m sitting here now.  I've missed recording some of the special events and weird moments in life...for future entertainment.

It's been a wonderfully crazy couple of weeks, to say ( Read more... )

That's the theme for today's event up at the school at least.  I was joking with another  mother yesterday, while we were at the school waiting for the kids' dismissal...how it always seems such a festive event when a father is involved with something, whereas for the mothers it's just an expectation...no big deal.  Our roles often seem to weigh ( Read more... )

For whatever reason, lately I"ve been in quite a venture of mood swings...ending with a long, kind of overcast feeling.   I'm not necessarily in a bad mood, but an oddly dark intuition consumes me.    Like, a calm before a storm...the way animals sense things.
Now, I'm not claiming to have some type of feline connection with the mother earth... ( Read more... )

So, Carmen got a RED today in school.  Evidently, she was in "one of her moods"...or was, "having issues" as Carlie would explain it...anyway...she was on HER clock, doing what SHE had to do...and not what the teacher was asking her to do.
When at times, the teacher needs "all eyes" attention in the class....she blows a whistle or something, and ( Read more... )

Chris bowls with a bunch of his co~workers on Sunday nights.  They have a lot of fun, and have even  bought some cheap HW belt for the winner of the series that night...I join him from time to time (when we can find someone to sit with the kids) but I make sure not to go every time...I think it's important for him to have some "dude time."  (even ( Read more... )

I was watching a some movie on TV last night...usually don't pay much attention to names or anything, it was just on, ya know....but there was a part when they start inquiring as to whether or not, a person would want to know whether or not WHEN he/she was going to die.  I have to admit...I don't know that I watched the rest of the movie.  I mean, ( Read more... )