4-23-11 Easter Eve I worked most of the day, on a paper. But I came home around dinner time to do some Easter festivities. We dyed a dozen hard boiled eggs. It was the perfect amount. Growing up in a family of five, as I did, I think we must have dyed 3 or 4…
Category: Everyday Adventures
A Tale of Two Cities
I once caused a kerfuffle at my old job in Roxboro, North Carolina by getting permission to make a company picnic BYOB. One of my employees (a manager) pulled me aside and said that he didn’t feel comfortable allowing any alcohol at a party that children and families would attend. He wasn’t alone. I ended…
Another Moment
In the midst of end-of-term chaos, these beautiful moments keep ambushing me. Last night the Professor saddled up the pup for his evening walkies, and I decided to corral our increasingly active boys into their double stroller and join him. It was either that or continue to chase Liam around the room and scrape dog…
A Moment
Last week, while the husband and baby were out of town, Jack and I went to a friend’s house for a cookout. At the cookout, the host had a dozen oysters on the half shell, and upon discovering that they are (a) delicious, and (b) omg amazingly cheap (Deepwater Horizon what?), we decided to repeat…
Parades, Parades, Parades
I’m at school with the car. Jack’s at preschool. Liam is at home with the nanny. The nanny has a noon class, so I have to relieve her at 11:45. Jack needs picked up by noon at the latest, or they start charging a zillion bucks a minute. So I have to leave my school,…