Happy Halloween!Happy Halloween!

My sister Emily is a creative, artsy type.  Many of you know that.  Her friend Kelly is a graphic designer, too – they met at a previous job and became fast friends.

Last year they participated in Rock Bottom’s Halloween costume competition and won.  They were a clothesline (sorry… I don’t have pictures) it was [...]

Big day

Today is a big day for my little ones.  Jude gets to wear his Batman (pajamas) costume to preschool for a fall party.  He can hardly stand the wait.  We’re augmenting the "costume" with the mask from last year’s Batman costume.  You know, making it more legit.  Jett will also be wearing his identical costume [...]

Loose Threads

Thanks for your comment yesterday, Dad.  I was reminded of two things:  1) the phase you went through a few years ago where you endlessly quoted Moby Dick.  2)  being a kid and remembering Mom exasperated at times at the constant uphill battle of keeping the house clean.  I know what she feels like [...]

FlyLady

Shout out to Aunt Lo who sent me a link to www.flylady.net after reading my desperate posts last week about regaining control over my house.  I was sure I’d seen this FlyLady business somewhere before.  Mentioned on a blog I’d read in the past?  Not sure.  The point is, I’d never visited the site before [...]

Analyze this

Last week we did a sticker project.  I let each boy choose his color of construction paper and gave each a sheet of Thomas the Train stickers.

And this is what they came up with:

Jett is on the left.  Can you tell we still have drooling issues?  Jude is on the right.  [...]

My mole and me

My mole and me have been together for such a long time.  I was just going through old pictures (only digital ones on the computer, I don’t want to get up and look for others) to see how much if at all my mole has changed over the years.

Here’s the oldest picture I could [...]

Oooh, fancy!

Let me explain…

#1) In this colder weather, I let the boys wear pajamas during the day if we’re not going anywhere.  Jude LOVES wearing his pajamas!  Especially ones with the footies. 

*Side note: when the weather is warmer and we’re home for the day, they usually wear nothing but a diaper/underwear.  [...]

Superwoman? Hardly.

You guys are the best.  Thanks for all the nice comments and encouragement you’ve given me via comments here on the blog and email.

Yesterday was actually a pretty great day.  We kept busy, I got stuff done around the house, and didn’t turn the tv on once.  The dark clouds parted and I ended [...]

Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands

I listened to Bob Dylan’s Blonde on Blonde album yesterday; the last track of the album is today’s post title.

I’m sorry to say, it kind of sums up how I felt yesterday.  No reason to feel that way, I suppose… thank goodness it doesn’t happen very often or for long periods of time – [...]

Was that a haiku?

I’m posting what I hope to be one of many poems to come from my favorite introspective poet and husband.

I laughed so hard when I read this!  Welcome to our running fail joke in our house (usually not in reference to our children)… inspired by failblog.org.  Have you ever been to that [...]