If I had a penny for every time the girls have jumped into a body of water this summer, I’d probably have enough pennies to put in a pool in our back yard. They are both water babies – swimming in any shape or form is a joy for them. Seriously, right now, I think […]
Yearly Archives: 2012
It’s hot. And that’s about all I have to say about that. We’ve been staying cool any way we can. We do not have central air in our house – it went out last year and will cost thousands of dollars to repair, money we honestly don’t have after having to completely redo the plumbing […]
Tyger! Tyger! burning brightIn the forests of the night,What immortal hand or eyeCould frame thy fearful symmetry? William Blake Abigail is a lot of things. Stubborn may be at the top of the list. Infuriating is right on up there, too. She is willful, and stubborn, and says completely inappropriate things at inappropriate […]
My body has an Achilles heel. Okay, I guess technically, it has two Achilles heels. But, I’m speaking metaphorically here. The weakest point of my body is my lower back. I hurt my back, somehow, in my early twenties and since then (hello! two decades ago!), any time I allow myself to be stressed, […]
This may well be my favorite day of the year. The day after school gets out for the summer. The day my babies are home with me, returned to me again at the end of a long, amazing but tiring, school year. The day when the whole entire summer shines brightly before us, full of […]