The Reluctant Grownup – Page 116 – Growing old gracelessly.

Cooking and Such

Well I left that bleak post up quite a long while, and I’m sorry about that. Like everyone, I am experiencing the emotional “roller coaster” of quarantine – some days…

July 25, 2020

Holidays and Celebrations, Like a Horse and Carriage

Valentine’s, Updated

I was going to do a survey of Valentine’s days with my Valentine, when I retrieved from the dusty recesses of my brain the memory that I had already done…

February 14, 2012

Holidays and Celebrations

2011 – Planning Ahead

I like making goals for self-improvement, and now’s as good a time as any, so here I go. 1. I resolve not to have a baby or get pregnant in…

January 1, 2011

MILP Roundup # 259

RG / July 2, 2012

The Weekly Mothers In the Legal Profession Roundup is hosted on a rotating basis at the Butterflyfish, PT Law Mom, Attorney at Large, Attorney Work Product, Today Advocating Tomorrow, here, and Magic Cookie blogs. It’s summertime in America! Lag…

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Jack and Liam’s Summertime Extravaganza – a Pictorial Representation of Why I Wish I was Four Again

RG / July 1, 2012

Although much of my summer has a certain Groundhog Day feature to it – bar study remains relentless and mostly boring – my SONS are not suffering for that fact. If you wanted…

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Drive In

RG / June 25, 2012

We took you to the drive-in to see Brave on Saturday night – afterwards you called the drive-in “the big movie that is outside.” Anyway, you loved it. We put you in pjs…

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I’m scared of the dark

RG / June 25, 2012

Last night, you woke me in the middle of the night by standing by your grandparents’ grandfather clock and wailing into the dark. I heard you and came down, picked up you, put…

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Panic Level – Elevated (TS Debby Edition)

RG / June 24, 2012

On top of bar pressures, pretty nervous about this nasty girl, heading STRAIGHT for our as-yet-unfinished home, vulnerably standing on a lot full of gorgeous mature trees that I really want to stay…

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