*Edited to add pictures* Last night we had Jack’s tenth birthday party. We had a Nerf war in the park, followed by a movie projected on a sheet in our backyard. Ten 10 year olds. The Nerf part went actually fine – we just sort of threw them into an area of Audubon park bounded…
Category: Domestic Bliss
Eleven
Paying bills, reading the news, watching College Game Day, spilling cheesy eggs all over the laptop keyboard. These are the trappings of an eleventh anniversary. We are doing nothing, because we spent money on other (fun) things this month and we’re temporarily broke, and also we really did it up fly for our tenth anniversary….
Autumn in NOLA
At last, we have modestly autumnal weather. Our back doors and windows are flung open, the boys are shirtless, playing Legos at the kitchen table. The Prof is paying bills, I’m writing briefs. All together in a happy jumble. (Don’t worry, I’m sure some sibling will spark a fight with some other sibling shortly and destroy…
Family Game Night and Other Pleasantries
I’ve had several insane weeks in a row at work – mostly because there was a bit of a snafu re: overstaffing. There is a central staffing office but several folks put my on pitches without notifying the staffing office, and when they got awarded to us, I suddenly was on a billion cases. Since…
Summer 2017
The boys just had their last day of school. They had a little graduation that neither of us went to, and Jack was pretty peeved about that, but too bad. I’ll go when he actually graduates from the school, but there’s no need for graduation every darn year. I love their school but this last…