So, Zoe and Lucy started back to school on Friday. It was a half day, or, since they normally only go for a half day I guess this was a quarter day. And parents went with their kids. So there we all were, in a room made for 11 kids and 2 teachers (that’s 11 people who are about 3 ft tall and 2 full-sized humans). All 11 kids and at least 1 parent per kid, plus the teachers. That’s at least 24 people. And it seemed like they were expecting the kids to have a normal sort of morning,…
I’ve been meaning to write to you about this for a long time. But my bloggy brain has been a little backlogged the past few months, what with the turning upside down of my life and all. Now that we’re on our way to righting ourselves, I can’t wait any longer on this. MOSE is a new online comic that (full disclosure here) my brilliantly creative renaissance man of a cousin has created. And I’m telling you today, Go Read It. But please understand that my telling you to go read it has nothing to do with nepotism. (Well, maybe…
So, as you can see from the very end of that little video, Zoe and Lucy were freakin thrilled at the Wiggles show last Friday. I swear, I don’t think Zoe stopped dancing the entire show. And the show? It was amazing. Way more better than I would ever have imagined, even after watching countless hours of Wiggles back when the girls were 2. In fact, that made the show even better for me. You see, I’ve got this thing. Whenever I see someone perform live, especially when they’re somone I know very well in their recorded persona (be it…
Ok, here’s the thing. Back before I had kids. Back before I was thinking about having kids. Even back when I had little babies who had yet to watch any tv other than the headsmackingly simple “I should’a thought of that” Baby Einstein videos, I would have given you such a hairy eyeball, such a sneer, such a scornful dishing of my witty sarcasm if you had told me that I was, someday, going to take my kids to see a live Wiggles show. And yet, that’s where I’m going right now. My mom and I are taking Zoe and…
7 years ago yesterday, Bob and I got married. Tonight we cleaned ourselves up, left the girls with my parents and skipped out on all our responsibilities to go to dinner and a movie. While we were at dinner, we decided to talk about things that have happened in each of the past 7 years. Like, something big or momentous or otherwise memorable from each year. It’s amazing how much unimportant crap you can remember without even trying. Like, what date we closed on our house in Durham (January 14, 2000). Or where we were when I took my very…
Hey! Zoe and Lucy turned four yesterday! Four! That’s years people. Four years old. Like, the length of a seemingly endless presidential term. Or the presumed duration of college. One day they’re babies. Like this: The next day, they’re old. Like this: Zoe and Lucy, thank you for making these past four years more fun than any presidential term and more sleepless than college. I love who you are growing up to be: voracious in your quest to understand the world, astounding in your ability to surprise me anew every day. You are funny, loving, unique and totally, completely insane….
So. Hi everyone. Um, how’s it going? Some weather we’ve been having, eh? Heh heh.Yeah. Well, uh, as you may have noticed, I’ve been a little off the radar while we’re trying to put our life back together in the aftermath of our house sale, house purchase and move to a new town that all took place in a 4 week period. I know there are crazier lives than mine. I know I’m a notoriously stressed-out mover. And I know that I have a tendency to whine about things that feel to me as though they might cause my head…
Have any of you been following Kyle MacDonald and his one red paperclip adventure? If not, here’s the quick rundown: July 12, 2005 he posted a picture of one red paperclip on his website and offered to trade it for anything. His goal was to keep trading upwardly until he got a house. One year, 14 trades and many tv and radio appearances later, he has done it. Check it out, y’all. The power of the internets + original idea. Meanwhile, we’re moving into our new house (the day after Kyle moves into his) on July 13. We didn’t have…
So we’re at t-minus one week and counting. Our house closes on July 12 and we close on the new house in Charlotte on July 13. We’ve packed a lot and there’s still much to pack. I can’t find one of the library books we still have checked out. I missed the girls’ dentist appt on Monday because I thought the card read 7/30 (which is a Sunday) and not 7/03. I need to schedule the turn-off for all our utilities here and the turn-on for the utes there. I need to change our phone numbers. I need to get…
