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Fashion victim
Ok, who wants to help me be a little less winter-fashion-inept? I am reasonably comfortable dressing myself in the warmer months, or pulling together an outfit around a pair of jeans, but in the winter, anything not jeans-based throws me for a loop. I always end up feeling like I’ve chosen the wrong footwear and [...]
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We’re not really one of those families who has the tree up the day after Thanksgiving. In fact, we’re often lucky to have our act together in that department by Christmas Eve. True to form, this year I’ve been slow to get the house cleaned up, preferring to focus instead on closing up the shops [...]
continue reading "Magical"All work and no play
Oh, thank you ladies, for all of the hook love this past weekend! I am loving your feedback, thoughts, and constructive criticisms, and you can bet I am taking all of it into account while I plan my next move. Which is? Well, cleaning the kitchen and catching up on business email have to come [...]
continue reading "All work and no play"File under ironic
It’s no secret that my van has seen it’s share of wrong-place-wrong-time accidents: one for every year since 2008, in fact. I guess we were due for a little 2011 mishap, but when the tree (our vehicles’ most imminent threat) came down on Thursday, I allowed myself to feel a twinge of optimism that we’d avoided such a [...]
continue reading "File under ironic"I can see so much sky now!
I think I’m going to miss this lovely old oak. The way it filled up the sky with green. Or, at this time of year, fiery red. But it had been prone to throwing its branches at our vehicles from time to time, and recently it dropped the limb that broke the camel’s back. Right on the [...]
continue reading "I can see so much sky now!"So, I thought it was still October
But then this happened, and made me doubt myself.. It was quiet and it was pretty. But then this happened and made me a little nervous… A branch on this tree (you know, the three that routinely tosses big sticks at our vehicles?) cracked under the weight of the leaves and snow and came to [...]
continue reading "So, I thought it was still October"Reasons to be Cheerful: Fall Edition
It’s a yearly tradition for me to go on and on about how much I love the fall, yet here we are in mid-October and I have yet to fill my quota of autumnal gushing. Clearly this must be rectified at once. One look out the window (or several errands out in the car) this [...]
continue reading "Reasons to be Cheerful: Fall Edition"You’re not really a nerd, are you?
I think I’ve figured out something about you. Your eyes kind of glaze over when I start talking about apps and kindles and downloads and stuff like that, don’t they? You’re not really a nerd, are you? Ok, I can accept that. Let’s talk about something else, then. I’m kind of in the mood to [...]
continue reading "You’re not really a nerd, are you?"Farewell, summer!
School starts this morning. 6th grade for one (middle school!) and 3rd grade for the other. In some ways I feel like summer never really got off the ground around here. But in many other ways, it certainly did. Fun was had, memories were made… and now we look forward to another season. I love [...]
continue reading "Farewell, summer!"Dragon bones, mushrooms, and tea leaves
The boys found this in the grass today. I said it was a big branch blown down by the hurricane. They said it was dragon bones. Either way, it makes good kindling. Into the firewood pile it goes! Also in the grass were a whole lot of impressively large mushrooms. Neil and Aidan found them [...]
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