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.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
I held my breath this December as the new year hovered. I’ve no issues with resolutions or the holidays, my trepidation is in the echoes of change, these passages I am coming to know as a mom. I did not want, was not ready, am not ready, for this door to close. I know (though [...]
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
I’m no shoemaker, but words are my trade and my kids, well, lately they’ve had no words. No words from me, that is. The kids actually have a lot of words. Finley continues to beam and trill, “mama.” Avery calls to me with her head cocked, “Anything ok here?” and “What is going on in here, [...]
Thursday, September 11, 2008
I am sitting in an incredibly comfortable chair, there isn’t a sound save the odd sigh from Fin as she sleeps in the bed behind me and the occasional whiz of a passing truck on the street below. I am showered with freshly shaved legs, I have a stack of magazines I could be reading. [...]
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Briar’s favorite game: Hey (insert name). Want one of these? Which one? Other person: That one. Briar: NO! You can’t have that one. It’s mine. ********** Avery’s pat answer: Because I want to. Because I want to and I want to. Beee-cuuuuz. ********** Finley’s latest past time: Pretending to need to nurse and instead giving painful hickeys to side of my [...]
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Sometimes memories come unbidden, leaving us weeping for someone we’ve lost or reminding of us of something we swore we’d never forget, other times it seems as if you can hear the gentle whir of water turning to ice, moment into memory. I was sitting with the girls this afternoon, Fin in her swing and Briar [...]
Sunday, May 25, 2008
27 days of learning that time is unforgiving. Waste a minute and it’s gone. Fritter away an afternoon pissed off about this or that and all you’ve done is lost an afternoon. Last night I was watching the girls play as a slideshow of picture flowed on the monitor above their heads. Incredulity doesn’t begin [...]
Monday, February 11, 2008
Apologies to the Gingers of the world. And further apologies to all those people who think that because we have daughters with names beginning with “a” and “b” that our next should have a name beginning with a “c.” It ain’t gonna happen. So far she won’t be called: Claire – makes me think of Judd Nelson in the [...]
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Just this, Whymommy, mom of two, wife of one, friend and inspiration for too many to count, is on the mend and the removal of her breasts has left her with clear margins!
Friday, November 2, 2007
You ever notice that products don’t always come with quite enough disclaimers? I mean, sure, there are the antibacterial kitchen wipes that advise you not to use them on babies and the digital thermometers that warn, “Once used rectally, the thermometer should not be used orally,” but are there some areas where they haven’t gone [...]
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