Category Archives for Daily Life
Jam Packed
I love days like today. Days when we go from activity to activity, from play date to play date, from yummy meal to yummy meal.
Wondering
Lately I’ve been wondering whether or not I should start blogging again. I haven’t stopped writing, or menu planning, or taking pictures of my sweet boy; I just haven’t felt the need to type it all up for publishing. Recently … Continue reading
Carved
After Monday’s pumpkin patch fail and a failed attempt to procure a pumpkin from a local market yesterday afternoon, we finally brought home a pumpkin to carve yesterday evening. Jude was ready to dive right in; he desperately wanted to … Continue reading
Letter to Jude: Month 41
Dear Jude, Well, Mama fell off the monthly letter writing wagon. I’m really and truly sorry for that. The letter I write you, the posts I publish… they’re my journal of your life. When I forget to write or put … Continue reading
Pumpkin
There’s a place on Sheridan Road that sells pumpkins during the Halloween season and Christmas trees during… uhm, the Christmas season. Since Monday’s attempt to go to the pumpkin patch at a semi-local farm was such an epic FAIL, Josh … Continue reading
Ideas
I’m really not sure what to write about. There a about six different ideas for blog posts swirling around in my brain right now, but I can’t figure out where to start. The simplest of the ideas is just to … Continue reading
Payback
In return for a really wonderful day with Jude yesterday, today the universe gifted me melt down after melt down from an overtired young man. One might say that Jude woke up on the wrong side of the bed this … Continue reading
Better
Today was better; not pain-wise, but parenting-wise in the least. This morning, after a long, drawn-out breakfast of raw, keifer-soaked oatmeal, Jude and I walked a few blocks east and south to Lazarus Playlot. There we played with old and … Continue reading
Blerg
I think I’ve said it before, but in case I haven’t, let me come clean with all of you: I am a shitty, shitty parent when I am in pain. And, sadly, I’ve been a lot of pain as of … Continue reading
A Good Deal
I LOVE taking advantage of good deals at the local market. Last night, a friend updated her Facebook status to say that organic strawberries were on sale at the local market for 99 cents/pound. I hurriedly told Josh to throw … Continue reading