By the end of the weekend I had worked over my anxiety over the upcoming school year.  It helped that I was able to finish up my big projects and get back to our day-to-day routine of naps, stories, and laundry.  And I knew that I would be tired, but I could most certainly handle […]

Read More Unexpected Answers

Paul had some downtime between a training and a hearing earlier this week.  He knew he’d be going past a WalMart and asked me if there was anything I needed.  I replied that I was out of carpet cleaner. He called from the store.  “Ummm, is 4 enough or would you like me to get […]

Read More He Always Knows How to Make Me Smile

Last night, when I realized it was Thursday night and I still had a laundry list of things I hadn’t done this week that probably wouldn’t get done I tried to console myself by thinking “well this has just been a busy week.” … as opposed to??? And it hit me.  In two week’s it’ll […]

Read More I’m Beginning to Freak Out, A Little, A Lot

What do Robert Plant, Al Roker, Joan Allen, Connie Chung, Amy Adams, and I all have in common?

Read More Pop Quiz

Where do I start in describing my mother’s two-week visit? I guess with the beginning.  It’s a good thing she mixed up those numbers.  She thought she had found tickets from Edmonton to LA for $183.  (By the time she realized it was $381, she was too excited to back out.)  She arrived only the […]

Read More So Much to Say, So Much Unsaid

Thursday mid-day brought the most unhappy news of another $100 rent hike.  I was so sick to my stomac.  I tried very hard to fight the visceral reaction to declare that we were moving, trying to learn the lesson from last year.  It turns out I was quite right to stay calm, as ours was […]

Read More Time to Reevaluate