On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me…a mortgage and a baby.On the second day of Christmas, Chicago gave to me…two parking fines, and a Volkswagen and a Bitsy.On the third day of Christmas, my kiddos gave to me…three blanket tents, two museum free days, and a “Sleep in ’til seven thirty.”On the fourth day of Christmas, my parents gave to me…four words of wisdom, three No Way naptimes, two ethnic bake shops, and a “Sorry {Read More}
December 6th…that day sounds familiar…
December 6, 2010 By 4 Comments
Happy Feast of Saint Nicholas! Just what I asked for! Here is how we celebrated this morning: -One of us filled a miniature boot and two normal-sized boots with candy, advent calendars and a rubber reindeer duck.-One of us peed through one of our jammies/bedding/lovies/sleepsack.-One of us spilled coffee on ourselves whilst trying to eat a Snickers bar shaped like a Nutcracker. I’ll leave it as anonymously as that. Okay, so now it’s fully and terrifically the Christmas season. We’ve got {Read More}
Not too early for a late breakfast martini, though…
November 29, 2010 By 2 Comments
Get A Load Of This Gal Cam. Boy oh boy, have I overcome a major writing hurdle. As I’ve been working on various projects this a.m., I put on Sirius XM’s 40s on 4 channel- recently converted to all holiday music, all the time. Which I generally dig. But it wasn’t doing much for my creative process other than making me want to swirl brandy in front of a fire- and it’s about an hour too early for that. (Darn you, {Read More}
You think I’m kidding about the cranberries.
November 25, 2010 By 5 Comments
You play the piano beautifully, Pop. Thanksgiving has started off quite well. My Dad made his signature waffles- Nora had the better part of two- and there have been more a few people dancing along with the Macy’s Parade. No names…but Nora wasn’t the only one marching with the Spirit of America dancers. (Also- I’m pretty sure the guy/girl ratio on that team is 7 to 800. I bet those boys felt pretty awesome last night at their motel party.) {Read More}
Thank goodness she has something to play with, now.
November 22, 2010 By 1 Comment
This post is a tad late today, but I have an awesome excuse: I was playing with all of my childhood [ahem] toys in my parents’ attic. We’re talking Barbies and their clothing from the ’70s (I think they were hand-me-downs from my cousins, soda shoppes, multiple dollhouses and furniture, pieces that I made myself…and they were all wrapped in at least seven layers of paper towels. ‘Cause I was afraid all the plastic and felt blankies would break in all {Read More}
I’ll sleep in March.
November 15, 2010 By 2 Comments
Oh, Monday. In my efforts to protect my laptop, phone, coffee and child from each other, I managed to dump the third over all four things. Five, including myself. The coffee was cold. She’s fine. Maybe I need to be child-proofed from myself. (What is that glorious aroma of hazelnut coming from my iPhone case? Smells like…a warranty crying.) So, yes. Monday. It was a busy and fabulous weekend across the board- and the country. Sadly, we missed my youngest nephew {Read More}
November is for sleeping.
November 1, 2010 By 2 Comments
Firstly and foremostly, congrats to Kelly F, winner extraordinaire of the Brain Noodles giveaway! (And no, that does not read ‘Keely F.’ It doesn’t.) Hope you have some fun kiddos in your life- or enjoy a good crafty evening by yourself. ‘Cause who doesn’t? Except for autophobes. Hmm. So. Where did October go? Ah yes, now I remember. We sent it packing with armloads of confetti and [impossible to open] plastic toy enclosures, a face full of Trick or Treat makeup {Read More}
I have a crush on my husband. How nerdy.
October 25, 2010 By 6 Comments
She’s fine. Pre-bloggy-blurby: For those of you interested in winning this toy, please please leave a comment on that post telling me how many entries to give you. I’m totally digging all of the votes and clicks, but I have NO way of knowing who’s doing what, when and how. You can do one humongous comment on Friday that lets me know how many chances to give you, or you can do one comment daily. Whatever’s clever. Just want to give {Read More}
