I sit on my couch, surrounded by sick and napping children, rain pattering on the roof, the radio playing low. I want to write a typical post, a “Day in the Life” of the RG family, but today is the day of the Orlando nightclub shooting, and the day cannot pass without comment. In July…
Category: New Orleans
Drizzly Zoo Trip
Faced with the prospect of a rainy Saturday with the kids by myself, I contemplated staying home – them destroying the house, fighting, bouncing off the walls. I contemplated the aquarium – eleventy million people, kids scattering in three directions and being swallowed up in the crowd in seconds. So I settled on the zoo!…
Summer “Break”
Summer ‘vacation’ is so different as a working parent! Ugh, 3 months to find something for the kids to do each week, 3 months of slight guilt that they aren’t getting any lazy time at home, 3 months of wondering why the heck summer day camps run from 9am to 3pm . . . When…
My Two Nemesese, the Skillet Basil Cream Chicken and Spatial Relations
The Prof sold one of our vehicles. I’m sure it was a long thought out decision for him, but my experience of this process was that one day we had a van and a couple days later we didn’t have a van and there were not any articulated plans for immediate replacement of the van and…
Housey McHouseyface
We’ve made our five millionth offer on a house and are waiting to hear. We are one of many, and we offered low because it needs work, so I’m presuming our offer will expire without word because that’s just how this process rolls. We’re definitely in compromise mode. I’ll take anything! Anything that’s not $750,000…