When it hurts to bend down you realize that’s what life is, picking things off the ground, or at least parenting, which is equal parts love, frustration, fatigue, chicken nuggets, and picking chicken nuggets off …
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life is bending down
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The power of Not
Joe’s new favorite word is Not, which is an extension of No but enables you to challenge reality which is an important if not annoying skill for a toddler. Joe, it’s night time, it’s time …
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The Gamut
Since this is probably, theoretically, hopefully? My last time being pregnant I’m paying extra special attention to my insane thoughts and fulling surfing the waves of each rapidly shifting and conflicting emotion. My new favorite …
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His Dreams
I’m at the point where it hurts to both lift Joe, and also sit with him, and also bend down to his level, so he’s at the point where he’s kind of given up on …
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do less
As I rifle through the Tetris of our freezer for breakfast sandwiches, wishing I’d had the time and forethought to make us a breakfast casserole, wincing from sciatic pain from lifting one kid while growing …
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21st century woman
Me to Morrison, after working to provide for our family while also growing another member of it but also I made a Chicken Enchilada Casserole for dinner, a big one that might feed us all …
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Jump to Recipe
Before I forget (and I probably will) two strong potential titles for my memoir are Jump to Recipe and Buy Now, as I am ALWAYS ALWAYS wanting to do domestic and pastoral things, whimsical and …
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humans vs. ideas
At the risk of sounding VERY VERY OBVIOUS I think the hardest part of character-driven writing is writing about human beings instead of ideas. So often I’ll be crafting something and realize, I’m thinking about …
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catalytic convertor
The other night, Mo and I woke up at 4 AM to the sound of someone sawing his catalytic converter off his car, and then peeling off into the night. (Please note that I JUST …
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hand and foot and mouth and heart
Joe caught hand foot and mouth at day care, and his PERFECT PRECIOUS little hands and feet and face are covered in painful red blisters and bumps and I look at him trying to pull …