I don’t remember what day it was, or even what month, but I do know it was sometime during the dark, cold winter of 2009. The snow and the ice heaped their weight on top of my already unbearable load of new motherhood. It got dark early, both outside and in my heart. The date [...]
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
13 a lazy day, on purpose
I have a really hard time turning on the TV. I don’t know, it’s not that I expect everyday to be educational and homespun and full of finger painting, but it seems like once the TV has been turned on it’s near impossible to turn it back off. It sets a course for the day [...]
Friday, January 20, 2012
23 a little bit of the lustre has worn off
January 20, 2012: 178 lbs – I’ve lost 9 lbs! I’m starting to crave things, to get urges and stray thoughts that I have to intentionally hold captive. I tell you, before this week I had never noticed how many fast food restaurants were on the drive from here to my gym. 4. There are [...]
Thursday, January 19, 2012
16 while the kids are away, the parents will… install shelving.
Our boys are with Nana and Papa tonight so naturally we are going out to dinner renting a chick-flick visiting the museum of modern art cutting trim and installing built-in shelves in our living room. A-like-so: The idea and bones came from the IKEA (where else?) Billy bookshelves, which we bought several of this past weekend [...]
