Family News

We were to have some company yesterday morning, and knowing that always makes the children impatient.  It led to my having this exchange with Natasha:

N: What’s taking her so long?
A: She’s got two little kids who are too little to help, so she has to do all the getting ready herself.
N: Wow.  That’s a lot [...]

We took the kids to a playgroud last Saturday morning. There was a family of three kids already there, the oldest brother (maybe 10) seemed to be vaguely in-charge and eager to converse with an adult (hey, that’s me!).
He asked if that school was where my kids went. I said they weren’t old [...]

I’ve got some fun ones to post, but this blog’s being twitchy just now.
Will get them up when I can.

I signed up for the intermediate guitar class, and got the run-down tonight.
It looks to be just what I need (Highly structured and purposeful) goes where I want to go, and (God. help. me.) at breakneck speed.
I’m hoping I can keep up, because if I can I will learn a bunch of stuff I’ve wanted [...]

Thank God for ibuprofen (even if the kid’s not taking it willingly anymore) and “Snarkers.”
Melody at least is big enough to blow her own nose, but E ceratinly isn’t. With a plugged nose and (just last night) a temp of 103-degrees he is one wiped patoodie.
Both girls have the cough and runny nose, but [...]

Well, I wrote a post about my migraine the other day, complete with thank-yous about the way I get them as opposed to the worst they could be (which I did get once, so I do know what I’m missing).
But by the end I realized it was more for my own sorting-out of things, so [...]

(Extra points for anyone who recognized that line from Mad About You.)
I don’t know if anybody really uses the “Why buy the cow if you can get the milk for free” line, just like I don’t know anybody who uses the “If all your friends jumped off a cliff would you?” line, but I just [...]