Thursday, February 7, 2013
We threatened our son the other day with a cattle prod. Instead of becoming upset, he merely scoffed at us. “You know,” he said, “they don’t use cattle prods anymore. They use tasers.” Adam and I are so trapped in the 20th century. With school canceled, Adam’s office closed, and a snow emergency in effect, [...]
Thursday, February 3, 2011
–I’m not sure why my family doesn’t see it as an act kindness that I am willing to eat all the expired gummy bears by myself? What if they’re poisonous now? Why don’t they understand I’m simply taking one for the team? –I don’t like to think of myself as a fair weather environmentalist, but [...]
Thursday, January 27, 2011
I can’t do another snow day. It’s not that the kids are making me crazy (they do that even when it’s not a snow day). It’s not that there’s snow to be shoveled (Adam actually took care of all the snow himself this morning, with the help of a neighbor’s snowblower). It’s not that I’m [...]
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Today was snowshoeing with the Daisies day. Eleven girls. Four older siblings. Seven grown-ups. A wide open field for clomping across. What could wrong? Oh, I know. My kids could be royal pains in the tush. Everyone else seemed to be doing fine. But mine? Not as much. Remarkably, despite the 20 degree weather, it [...]
I thought the whole point of New England was that the folks up here are rough, rugged. Snow? What snow? So what’s up with another friggin’ snow day? Seriously. It’s the folks in Seattle who aren’t supposed to be prepared for snow. But we have snow plows up here. And ice melt. And shovels. Why [...]
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
We don’t own a flask. How is this possible? We are parents who like to drink, and we don’t have a flask. Which means I was forced to put the family bourbon in an old honey jar to take to the playground. That must break about twenty etiquette rules. Don’t tell Emily Post. But I [...]
My kids have personalities as different as can be. But nowhere does it show itself as clearly as it does in their reaction to the weather. Doodles, who claimed that his favorite thing about the trip to Miami Beach was “the hotness,” constantly bemoans the fact that we live in New England instead of Florida. [...]
Sunday, December 20, 2009
We all react to the snow in different ways. While a Sunday snow day is not a terrible thing, I was a bit disappointed because I had been looking forward to a few weekend activities that had to be reshuffled. The Tweedle Twirp was going to come visit, but that got canceled, which also means [...]
I’m here, I’m here. I’ve got a whole bunch of saved drafts that I’ve abandoned because they’re outdated. I’m feeling a bit over my head right now. I’ve got a suitcase that needs to be unpacked just so I can repack it, Adam’s harassing me to look at closet layouts, I have a program at [...]
Sunday, December 21, 2008
It’s been a fun, crazy week, with time in Doodles’ classroom, Adam’s office party, which–surprisingly–was really fun, a Hanukkah singalong at Pie’s school (preschool mosh pit! That girl loves to dance!), a night of cooking class, playdates, and all sorts of holiday prep goodness, including lots of baking, crafting (and I’ve become addicted to craft [...]