Few words
Avery: Mama, remember the day you took me to school and I had my face on your shoulder because it was cold? Me: Yes, baby. Of course I do. Avery: You gave me a kiss to take me through the day but the wind blew it off.
Archive | February, 2010
Catching Sand
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Most days I know about the speed of sand, am intimately familiar with just how fast the grains slip through the hourglass. I catch the tail end of a spec catching golden sunlight as it spirals toward the ever-taller tower of passed moments, the cheek that moments before was plump reflecting new, darker light in [...]
Keeping Up the Illusion
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Nobody likes to talk about how long they take to get ready. Most of us are like, “Huh? Primping? Not me, I’m a wash and go kind of gal. From the shower to the driver’s seat in 10 minutes.” This might be true on those days when I sport my frizzy mop with a halfhearted [...]
She would have loved it.
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Rotary makes me cry. I have, and I am not exaggerating here, cried at 4 meetings. I don’t mean the kind of sarcastic, how is it that I am old enough to be here kind of figurative crying, though there is that. I mean the kind of crying that has me looking around the table with [...]
Wa-da!
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Despite the fact that “my kid says…” is generally only cute to the parents and the ass-kissing people in the lives of the parents, my kid says the cutest thing. Often. It’s really just this one that get me lately. Fin will walk into a room, throw her arms wide and sing, “Wa-da!” which is [...]
DIY Diverted
Sunday, February 7, 2010
I made Briar’s first Halloween costume. It was a frothy, fluttery affair born from my not so nimble fingers wielding a needle and thread. More pokes in my fingers than stitches in the fabric eventually and literally ‘painstakingly’ led to her wood nymph costume. The last costume I will ever make on my own.
Sealed with a Gasp
Friday, February 5, 2010
It took two tries and several years, but we sold our house. I don’t think either of us believed it would happen. We furtively moved our things, loading a small pick-up with the garage door closed and making quiet trips to a storage unit. “We’ll probably have to just move it back in,” I thought [...]
Nooks and Crannies
Monday, February 1, 2010
The closing is scheduled for this Wednesday. After 6 months of culling, paring and finally, relentlessly storing and disposing of all things that bore any semblance of personality, sentimentality or non-essential purpose, I thought we were closer to done.
- Delicate
- Is it just me?
- In another's eyes
- So that you know
- Love Letters
- Babes in Slumber
- Can it be?
- Waffling Part 2
- Now
- Mad About My Man
- Sarahviz: "So many things I wanted to do, but in the same wa...
- Kelly @ Student of the Year: It's such a delight to watch them at the park. Alw...
- Justine: I've learned that bittersweet and parenting go han...
- Lindsey: Oh, how I know the happiness that makes you feel w...
- tet: Oh, how I love you. Mama lion....
Asides 
Friday, February 26, 2010
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