Category Archives: cute pictures I take on my camera phone

The Why Goblins

This house is a mess. These clothes make me look terrible. I’m exhausted. These little yellow fireflies of negativity flit through my brain, coming and going throughout the day.  I brush them absently away because I have more important things to do than address them:  meals to make (though they are often uneaten), clothes to…

A decade and a half

Minus 7 In those days we were Just Friends.  We met freshman year, before classes even began, waiting in line for an English class that I would end up dropping.  But the boy who turned out to live upstairs from me was a keeper.  The following summer we took our very first road trip together…

Birthday weekends

A little over a year ago, we were given a choice of birthdays for Theo, since he refused to flip over and had to be delivered by c-section.  They offered us July 8th as one of our options, but that is Sebastian’s birthday, so I vetoed it.  I don’t really care for sharing things like…

Home away from home

My children (courtesy of their father) are half-Canadian. In the bizarre way that life sometimes unfolds, their cousins are also half-bloods, since my sister married a Canadian as well. We settled south of the border; they live just north. We’re lucky enough to be separated by a short car trip and generally friendly border guards,…

A lot going on

It’s been busy, as you already inferred from the conspicuous lack of posting I’ve done.  Snapshot of the past two weeks: Visit from my grandparents: Daddy’s birthday: Our new niece’s first visit to our house: Cousins playing and running and laughing and trying their mamas’ patience and being adorable: Visiting the Ben & Jerry’s Scoop…