Category Archives: meaningless minutiae

What’s in my bag?

Becca at Drama for Mama tagged me in the “What’s In Your Bag” meme. I confess I’ve enjoyed voyeuristically reading everyone’s posts with photographs of what they carry with them every day. I love minutiae like that, and think it tells a lot about someone. So, here we go. First, my bag: I just last [...]

Ask me anything

Ask me anything at all. Blatantly ripping off some of my favorites here, but I think it’s interesting. Seriously, anything. Ask HERE.   Email this post

Sugar Doll: Ten things

In December, Kristen of Motherese generously handed me the Sugar Doll Award.  In turn, I passed the award on to Becca at Drama for Mama.  But I was remiss in listing ten things you don’t know about me, as specified by the award.  I’ve already listed ten things here, and truthfully I find myself unsure if there are [...]

Quiet, from Texas

He just gets funnier. The letter of the week is “Q” this week. The Beginners are supposed to bring in an item that starts with the letter of the week. So for “F” Whit brought in a toy firetruck. For “H” he brought in his “handcuffs” (two glow-in-the-dark bracelets linked together, don’t ask, he came [...]

Florida Snapshots

Time at the brand-new and utterly deserted playgroundReading in bed while a 4 year old boy watches Justice League on the computer next to meGrace’s increasing fluency navigating both an iPhone and a Mac, and her obsession with americangirl.comLouboutin espadrilles on top of Wired magazineEndless Go Fish gamesShivering by the pool, wrapped in towels, while [...]

The wisdom of beverages

Sometimes photographs speak more echoingly truly than words. In the last two days my hot beverages seem to be particularly sage.   Email this post

Paper wild things

Project tonight. A paper wild thing and a paper Max. For the kids to find tomorrow morning at breakfast. (from very cool blog here)   Email this post

Weekend in photographs

Despite forecasts calling for a Two Day Nor’Easter, Saturday dawned bright and clear and cold. Soccer for all. Whit spiced up his soccer outfit with his usual flair.Grace and I headed to the Common, where the Orange Frogs played the Teal Something or Others. I confess I was not paying super close attention and I [...]

Latest learnings

Oh I am so uninspired today. So totally uninspired. Even the bright zinnias I bought at the farmer’s market did not enliven any creativity. But, ah! Farmer’s market! That’s because it is day 3 of my Eat Like an Adult effort. This is an attempt to stop getting deathly sick every 3 months. Hoping a [...]

Swine Flu By the Numbers

Number of days in bed: 5.5 Number of times I left the house in 5 days: 3 Number of books read: 2 (pathetically low, indicating what a mess I was) Number of naps taken per day: 2-3 Number of times I threw up from coughing so hard: 3 Highest fever: 99 (who knew?) Days without [...]