Coping strategies, part II

I realize that coping strategies are best tailored to individual personalities, so most of my suggestions work best if you are (gulp,) of an anxious, worried, hyper-responsible, tending towards perfectionist, somewhat obsessive, a little compulsive (etc.) personality type. (Not that I know anyone like that . . . )
Anyway, I recently came up with [...]

When thrift isn’t really that thrifty (but I can’t help myself)

After several weeks away (except for using my cutting table to wrap Christmas presents,) I managed to get back into my sewing room today, and started to dig out from under the ironing and mending projects that had piled up. I ironed 16 items of the kids’ and my clothing (yes, I counted — [...]

Reaching for new heights of nerdiness by responding to someone’s blog post on my own blog instead of in their comments, so that I won’t take up quite so much space in their comments as I tend to do (and also, while I’m at it, reaching for new lengths of lengthiness in a blog post title.)

Hi, Darlene! Your latest post (found here) had lots of interesting things (as usual) that made me want to reply. First things first:
I’m so glad you’ve discovered The Office! I love that show much more than I even like to admit, (but as everyone in my family knows all too well.) [...]

Santa has come *and* a tree skirt got sewn!

I am certifiably insane, and also still very sick (physically,) but I’m on the high that comes from realizing plans for things my kids will love. I’ll have to take some pictures in the morning before the kids demolish the pretty set-up under the tree, because between Dean and me, we did some very [...]

Yes, I’m up at 1:30 AM,

but at least it’s not because I’m caring for sick kids.  I got to do a little shopping tonight and found some of the things I was looking for, and Dean and I got about half the family presents wrapped, and then I sorted out the Christmas stocking goodies (I started doing this last year [...]

Ugh update

I just found out that my other sister was up with sick kids on Wednesday night, too.  (So, all three of us sisters that have kids.)  All the kids had stopped throwing up as of Thursday morning.
I’m still feeling very tired and am trying to pull myself back together to work on Christmas prep without [...]

I ask myself the same question whenever I get on a scale

Rose stands in front of the bathroom scale and says, “Let’s do Rosie 38!” Then, standing on the scale, she asks, “Who am I?!”

Whew, this blogging stuff is hard work –

– and I’m already falling behind.
I give up.
Just kidding. I don’t want this to become a chore I’m always behind in and failing at (I have plenty of those in my life already — wait, in fact that’s all my life consists of) — I just want for it to always have scintillating fresh [...]

Things I shouldn’t admit to

I’m now only in the bottom 31% (up from the bottom 2%) on Websudoku’s easy level.

Sudoku will not, if you were wondering, necessarily increase the quality of your Thanksgiving

What a purely exhausting Thanksgiving day — and I’m not talking about the cooking, or the transporting of food and kids, or the post-meal tryptophan stupor. What I’m talking about is the hours between midnight and 2 AM, after I discovered that, in spite of what I thought were my impressive new Sudoku skills [...]