I have sat myself down to write some updates a few times, but technology has always foiled me. So many barriers between me and my one true love – writing for pleasure. (OK, I have more than one true love – making music, exercising hard, cooking, acting, but that doesn’t work as well rhetorically). The…
Christmas Menu
The last time we had Christmas at home was 5 years ago, in Alabama, and while we enjoyed it very much, it was somewhat marred by tornadoes, which is a natural disaster I do not weather well (pun intended). Earthquake this California girl any day, hurricanes you’ve got plenty of notice, but a tornado ….
Christmas is Settlement Season
I have never been so slammed in December. Last week I pulled an all nighter – basically worked 36 hours straight, with an hour or two break here and there to give the kids dinner, sleep for an hour, take a shower. I’m digging out . . . it won’t be this way forever ….
Saturday Morning Meal Planning and Train Track Engineering
My shirtless three year old son (soon to be four! FOUR!) is studiously banging a wooden hammer on some wooden train tracks, to make them “stick together.” Our Christmas tree lights are a-twinkle – the boys decorated it and so it is predictably bottom heavy with ornaments and bare at the top. I artfully arranged some…
Sick Day
It’s Wednesday, and I am siiiiiiiick. I’ve spent the day alternating between flopping on the couch, flopping on my bed, and stalking Meredith Salenger and Patton Oswalt’s wedding photos on Instagram. I intended to bill some time but I just canNOT. Everything hurts too much to think deeply. I did make this honey mustard slow…