Last night Dean was making himself some ramen noodles, and after putting the noodles on a plate, he slipped and bumped the glass bowl he’d cooked them in into a drinking glass, shattering the lip of the drinking glass. It wasn’t a large part of the glass that was broken, but the pieces were [...]
Well, in spite of the brain fog induced in me by my husband’s being on narcotics not being on narcotics, (which I consider the cause of his tossing and turning all night — he says he doesn’t need the drugs, but does he realize I do need the sleep?) where was I*? Oh, yeah, [...]
My house is clean (kind of — as much as it ever is,) the dishes are done and counters wiped, my laundry is mostly done and folded and put away, my pantry is well-stocked, the kids are bathed and in bed (as of 10:00 PM — the best I could pull off tonight.) I [...]
Although I hate to even think about how eventually I’m going to have to think about a whole, whole lot of stuff that hasn’t been getting done while I’ve been on Husband Care Duty, there is one good thing that came out of this past week: I played “Cash Cow 2″ on Webkinz.com enough [...]
This is Isaac’s school assignment that I just finished helping him type (he can type, but he’d spent so long writing it out by hand that I wanted to hasten his finishing it so he could go to bed.) The assignment was to write a mystery that contained these elements:
Professor Quimby
Michelle King (I assume [...]
A bit of an update:
After Dean got home from work and had read my May day post, he lectured Isaac some — he compared homework to a job where you sometimes have to do things the way your boss wants you to do them, even though you think your way would be better. I [...]
I knew Isaac’s book report assignment was going to be a bad one for him as soon as I saw the rubric: five drawings to represent photos for the non-fiction book he read — an awful lot of painstaking realistic drawing for a kid who doesn’t enjoy drawing anything other than Nintendo characters. [...]
One of the hiking guides said this was a “classic Zion hike” and I couldn’t agree more, especially at this time of year — it was just difficult enough to keep it interesting, but not too difficult, warm but not too warm, and there was a cove at the end of the hike with a [...]
Thursday night after Dean and the kids are all asleep in the hotel room, I lie awake and picture a scene: a beautiful little four-year-old, my beautiful little four year old, running at full speed away from us, several long steps ahead of us, along a path on a high cliff, towards an area [...]
One time in Primary, parents had been asked to write nice things about their children that the kids would get to read during Sharing Time. One vivacious, smart blond girl’s parents had said, among other things, that she was a “good little mother.” The girl’s face showed that she wasn’t sure how to [...]
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