Life is ridiculously chaotic of late, what with AE’s baseball games and Miss T’s gymnastics and my attempts at training for San Francisco and the usual work/laundry/dinner/bedtime routine, it’s just a little crazy up in here these days. So instead of a coherent blog post you get a scattered mess of random. Which is different [...]
Of insanity, that is. Because sometimes it feels like I’m teetering there. Scene: Kitchen table. I’m having a sandwich. Miss T is finishing her (second) dinner (waffles) (don’t judge me) when my mother calls to update me on my grandmother (who was admitted to the hospital for observation last night). The boys are at baseball [...]
I had to take AE to a “party” at his new baseball coach’s house yesterday afternoon. The coach wanted all the parents and kids to get a chance to interact a little outside of practice, but it just turned out to be incredibly awkward. (Much as N had predicted, which is why he refused to [...]
Yesterday was my 31st birthday, and we celebrated in a number of ways. Because you’re never too old to have a days-long celebration, right? (RIGHT.) Thursday my mom came into town to watch the kids so that N and I could go out and have some time to ourselves. So we headed out mid-afternoon and [...]
Scene: After dinner, at my parents’ house in the swamp. One of my grandmas is trying to jog the other one’s memory. Grandma: You know. Helen. She’s Bill’s cousin’s wife. Mee-Mee: [thinking] Hmm. No, I don’t think I know her. Grandma: Yes, yes you do. Helen Smith! She used to go to your church. Mee-Mee: [...]
