A Week in the Life
The weekend of 1/23 was great for GSD! I had a somewhat short, thoughtful, targeted list of things to do and got it nearly all done. Saturday, I took F […]
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Great Moments in Parenting
One Evening This Past Week Gemma and I are watching TV and an ad for Universal Studios theme park comes on. “Mom, can we go there? Ya know, since Great […]
Calamity Kitchen
Happy holidays from the McGuires’, where the house is still kind of trashed and many surfaces still bear a dusting of fire extinguisher residue. But more on that later! We […]
Everything Is Inventory
This post is a little dated, mainly because of my keyboard issues. However, I just realized I can use copy and paste to plug in the missing h’s and g’s. […]
Life in Grayscale
Recently I took part in the “black and white photo challenge” on Facebook. It was fun and reminded me of when I was around 19 and mildly obsessed with taking […]
Not a Shore Thing
Last Friday: Back home from vacation, a day early. My husband and the boys actually ended their vacation yesterday, and Gemma and I followed today. Work issues compelled my husband […]
The Final Countdown
Tuesday: This morning I packed the last lunches of the year. Three half days left of school. My term as PTA president is also up. I’m running around, tying up […]
Winning and Losing, Super Quick Vaca Version
I’m up in Maine on our vacation but I thought I’d post a few highlights from the run-up to our departure. Winning! Did not go grocery shopping — made do […]
Birthday on the Cheap
Patting myself on the back after throwing a fairly frugal sixth birthday party for Sebastian on Saturday. Of course, summer birthdays are pretty easy to do on the cheap. Kids […]
So, A Needle Pulling Thread
I have some bragging to do. I sewed! I fixed three items of clothing: a winter coat that was losing its buttons, a pair of my son’s corduroys that had […]
