We’re rewinding a bit to mid-December, when Jack and I made Christmas cookies. I’d like it recorded here, so I can get my Awesome Holiday Mom points. See, we have that book “The Sweet Smell of Christmas,” in which Mother Bear makes gingerbread boys to hang on the tree, and after reading it Jack decided…
Angry?
A couple people asked – on NYE, I drank a lot of wine and wrote something about being angry. I did not remember typing it. I don’t know what I was angry about. Probably all of my struggles with medical claims – since that evening I read the letter that denied an appeal of a…
Aught Eleven
1. What did you do in 2011 that you’d never done before? Wrote a Motion to Sever. (It won!) 2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I made eight, for heaven’s sake. And I kept most of them: 1. No giving birth, no getting pregnant in…
It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
The other day we put the kids in the car after supper and we drove them through the twinkling streets of uptown New Orleans to marvel at the lights. We pointed out the magnificent displays – There’s Santa, Jack, riding a rocking horse – do you see him? See Liam? The red lights on the…
Christmas Commercialism – DEFENDED
I’m bucking the trend and saying yes, I love the buying of Things at Christmastime. For me, Christmas is the “gratification” part of “delayed gratification.” I don’t buy stuff for my kids, myself, or other people through the year. This has as much to do with inertia and The Poverty as it does with ideology….