Domestic Bliss
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Sleepless
I’m sleeping not so well these days. I’ve instituted some mental health “rules” for myself, but truly what I need is to exercise. Unfortunately, dealing with several kid issues plus taking one day off this month means I’m behind on billing, so instead of getting up early to exercise I get up early to bill. And this weekend we have two kid birthday parties, two adult parties, the boys have testing for the free public school that won’t let us in, we have a Boy Scout meeting . . . I need a run, and a nap, and one extra day in the week. And a maid. Sigh. Anyhow, just…
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Comfort Food on a Rare Cold Weekend
Thanks all for your comments – I’m so impressed you read my posts on Christmas, given how much came at you so quickly. I love my small but committed band of readers – ya’ll are great, and it always buoys me to see comments here. (I still read a lot of blogs and never comment, so I’m bad at commenting myself and am not trying to shame any lurkers into commenting – just appreciating those of you who do drop me a line once in a while!) It is, lo and behold, freezing down here in the swamplands for once. I left work early to log in from home and…
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Various and Sundry on an Early Afternoon
The Middlest caught a cold from his cousin over Thanksgiving – a rattly little cough, irritating but not too chesty. He suffered through it like a trooper, though a high fever took him down for the count one day (I took him to the office that day and he was quiet as a mouse, sleeping on two chairs pushed together in my office while I worked). Over Monday night this devolved into a really painful ear infection which had him sweating, pacing, and by turns screaming from the pain. This kid doesn’t really mention ear infections until they’re full swing – he has a high tolerance for pain and discomfort,…
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Reaching for the Christmas Spirit
My mood these days remains uneven, as I deal with the anxiety brought on by the election. So many people at risk now, both from foreign and domestic policy. I feel like the small-minded cruelties, the “strict authoritarian father” form of rule that we fled when we left Alabama has now swept across the whole country. I guess you could say I am mourning the compassionate and inclusive America I thought we were moving toward, not to mention the country that I caught a glimpse of where women were fully respected, fully human, and seen as fully capable of leadership and not just toys for powerful men’s sexual pleasure and domestic/administrative…
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Busy bullet points
Shortly after my last post, I billed almost 50 hours in 3.5 days and then flew to North Carolina for a quick trip to see the sis, see the niece, and play a reunion show with the old band. It was a 48 hour trip – I left NOLA at 5am Thursday and hopped a plane in North Carolina at about the same time Saturday. A few snapshots: The sis and the beab picked me up in their brand new minivan, and then we grabbed Jason’s Deli for lunch. I chased Hannah around the restaurant some, and she was much more willing to be separated from her mom than last…