There’s a Snake in My Boot!
… well, clinging to the end of it, anyway. I’m glad I put on my Wellies last night before I went out to trim the hedges. It felt kind of silly — whoever heard of trimming hedges being particularly dangerous in a suburb? But it’s been raining a lot, and I didn’t want to put […]
Things I Don’t Miss, Being a Single Mom
You know, for every good bit, there’s a bad bit. I posted yesterday about what things I miss in my new life as a single mom. (I say “new life” but I’ve been a single mom since October 2001, when I left X.) Today it’s the opposite: what I don’t miss. First off, I don’t […]
Things I Miss, Being a Single Mom
Let’s start with the obvious: Household help. It was wonderful when I had a housekeeper. She came on alternate weeks and did the dusting, the vacuuming, the bathroom scrubbing, the windows, and the kitchen. She was a dream. I had a yard guy, who also came on alternate weeks and mowed, edged, mulched, and picked […]
I Hate Weekends
I know that sounds really insane, but I always seem to be more tired—no, more exhausted—on the weekends than during the work week. It’s not that I don’t work hard at my job; I do. But somehow it doesn’t generally drain my every physical, mental, and spiritual reserve like the weekends do. Probably I expect […]
Someone Please Tell Me It Slows Down….
Eventually….. After a busy week, a person kind of hopes for a quiet weekend to recharge and recoup. Not gonna happen. Made the Tenebrae service last night, and it went beautifully. As soon as we got home, my youngest puked again. Back on a clear diet for him. But we forgot that we were supposed […]
Mama Told Me There’d Be Days Like This….
We all went to bed on time last night, for once, but the younger son had me up at midnight, 1:45, 3:15, 4:30, 5:45, and 6:30 — vomiting and feverish. Heaving from his toenails, poor little fish. He couldn’t even keep water down. Which was awful, as he kept crying that he was thirsty, but […]
Weekend Wildness!
Wow! What a weekend that was. I don’t think I stopped to breathe. Got up Saturday morning and fed the kids, moved all the laundry off the couch onto my bed, sorted it, and folded a good bit of it. Dad called and they wanted to store some things in my shed and add some […]
If People Only Knew….
… how frustrating it is for them to spring a weekend event on a single parent…and not provide child care. This weekend is going to be another bust, when I will get little to nothing done at home. Pretty soon, the place is going to be a complete dump. There’s a handbell festival this weekend. […]
Enjoying a Few Moments of Rest
That should probably say “stealing a few moments…” as there is still laundry to be folded and put away, things to be ironed, and paperwork to be filed. And I haven’t yet finished filling out my taxes, so I need to get moving on that. But I am just enjoying a real sense of accomplishment […]
Well, the Madness Seems to Have Spilled Over
from Wednesday to Thursday. We got out of choir practise at 9:30 last night, so we didn’t get home til 10. I didn’t get out of bed til 7 this morning. So I’m kind of boggy today and not functioning on all six cylinders. Or however many there are. However, my hair stylist finally called […]