Posts Tagged With: children
“And Leon’s Getting Larger…”*
GS1 at the house this weekend: He’s grown an inch since Christmas Eve. His feet are bigger than mine. His voice hasn’t quite started to change yet, but every now and then it’ll crack. He’s still my Bean, though, and he always will be. *if you can identify that quote, I’ll take you to lunch [...]
Love, Guilt and Insanity aka Christmas
It builds slowly. I’m not sure exactly when it starts, maybe around Halloween. There’s a shift, subtle, like a drop or rise in barometric pressure. Maybe it’s the appearance of Christmas trees and wrapping paper in the stores even before the Thanksgiving turkeys have a chance to gobble. Maybe it’s the energy that kids put [...]
A Little Weepy
I’m working today. I don’t mind; I’m here at home, warm (new furnace ROCKS), it’s a sunshiny day in Colorado and after I get off work, we’re going out to B and M’s to have a big, traditional TG dinner. B normally does not cook much, but TG is her thing and she does a [...]
My Bean
Tomorrow, my oldest grandson will be eleven. ELEVEN! The day before he was born, I had just got back into the country with my mother from our big trip to the UK. I called my daughter to let her know we were back. I was at my mother’s house and the next morning, around 4 [...]
Derailed But Hanging On
Today, I woke up full of plans. I was going to exercise, get started on making the things I needed for my smackdown recipes, “put up” some veggies, and generally just enjoy a very productive day in the kitchen. I got to the exercising part. Then my daughter called all bummed because her car had [...]
I Want to Feel Better, or Merry Fucking Christmas
Today has been a better day. I did my part–I called the boys’ school and let them know what happened over the weekend so that the teachers can be in the loop if there is any acting out behavior. They did come over the night J moved all the stuff out of the house. GS2 [...]
Sloppers and Other Goodies
So, after dragging myself through work yesterday, I came upstairs just exhausted. G of course had been working in the yard all day, and one of our friends had come over to enjoy the hot tub, so I sat and chatted with her for a while. She went home with a big bag o’ salad, [...]
What Goes Around Comes Around…
So today, my daughter calls me. Everything is fine, she’s just all in a tither. I guess her step-daughter, who recently turned 10, is starting to “demonize”. By this, I mean the phenomena that happens when a sweet young girl begins to turn into a whiny, nasty, mouthy, pouty pre-teen or “tween” or teen and [...]
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