We're a week out from Christmas, and I feel like I have most of my crap kind of, somewhat, sort of under control. This is amazing - I never have my shit together for Christmas. It might be because for the first time in many years I am not managing multiple crises on the personal and/or work fronts in the weeks leading up to the holiday. Or maybe ( Read more... )

to be gone for so long ( Read more... )

Man, the Yarn Harlot managed to perfectly nail why I have been wicked cranky at the weather lately.

She wrote:

A little while ago, the weather here made that mysterious leap from autumn to early winter, and all of a sudden I can't get warm.  The house can't get warm, it's like the heat won't sink in to it and nothing is cozy. I feel like the ( Read more... )

Had a very wacky dream last night, that someone had taken their truck and driven over our car to get out of a parking space, but then posted gloatingly about it on the website of the place where we were parked at, so we knew their e-mail address and were able to figure out their actual name and address from that. Rather than try to deal with the ( Read more... )

I should have known that this month long posting every day thing wasn't going to happen, but I actually made it further than I expected.  Life is a little too crazy right now, and I'm a little too sleep deprived.

Helping a dear friend through a crisis (that so far looks like it will end well, but there's still plenty of room for it to go pear- ( Read more... )

A few months ago, one of the mom-blogs I read had a post about her plan to get her kids to cook dinner for the family one night a week. Her kids are a little older than Hannah, but I thought she might be ready ( Read more... )

This year, Miss Hannah decided to be a lion. After I might have been a little grumpy about her asking for another iteration of princess again this year.

But isn't she an adorable lion?


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Squam was, as usual, magic. More about that can be found over here: http://www.nograndplan.com/?p=243

The re-entry has been... rough. Yes, rough would be a very good way to put it. Someday I will find a way to indulge all the things I need to feed my soul. Someday.

I've been TALKING about wanting to get chickens for a very long time now. I have never actually managed to do it, because there were just enough complicated bits that I never quite wrapped my head around getting it all done. I mean - just the description of ordering wee baby chicks alone was enough to make my head spin, never mind picked a coop, ( Read more... )

Okay, universe, I give. You win ( Read more... )