I am exceptionally good at motion. Since I had Ethan, a decade ago, I feel like I have pretty much not slowed down. If I wasn’t having another baby, I was changing my career or buying a bigger house or leaving my husband or something.
Year to year, I feel like my life at any given [...]

Ian: Hey Hannah. How old are you going to be tomor–
Hannah: (interrupting and dancing with joy) MY BIRTHDAY!!!!!! … TWO!!!!!!!
This might be her best birthday ever.

Ah-ha-ha-ha, Feminism!
I just lectured Ian at length about his privilege. And he said jokingly how he didn’t mean to take advantage of his privilege, but, like, there it is, you know? And I said understandingly how it is hard not to because every day we stew in little stories about how the people who have [...]

Why is it so hard? Why do things have to get so vicious and personal before he will just talk to me? He tells me that he is suicidally depressed - but he can’t say so before first picking a giant fight with his sister, villainizing me for failing to see and prevent whatever must [...]

Rachel: “GO AWAY!”
Ethan: “I’m busy putting my lego away.”
Rachel: “GO AWAY!”
Ethan: “Busy putting my lego away.”
Rachel: “GO AW-”
Hannah: “uh…Scuse me? you don’t fight. ‘Kay.”
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Took Hannah to the doctor today. Doctor said how ridiculously verbal she was, even though Hannah was being very shy and refusing to speak much. But when the doctor offered [...]

Ethan had an in-school suspension today, but the principal apparently did not feel it was serious enough to warrant keeping him in school during a field trip. I don’t know where they went, I just sign a blanket “I trust youse all” form at the beginning of the year and they take my kids wherever. [...]

It’s not enough of a fever for me to even bother with ibuprofen. Just enough that I am always chilled. It’s not enough of a body ache for me to lie down, just enough to augment every existing ache, pain and shoulder knot that I naturally have from working a desk job and not being [...]

There’s a company in town that does riverboat cruises. And you can book their boat for private functions. So today I have put a deposit on their boat for our wedding next summer.
Ian and I, both being kind of ridiculous Canadian patriots (if by Canadian Patriots you mean someone who loves Canadian Beer and the [...]

I just hand-dyed myself a chartreuse belly dance veil and hip scarf. They are not the green I would have chosen (I’m so new to dying silk), but they are quite lovely …if a little vivid.
The kids do not have H1N1, the daycamp threatened to get canceled due to low attendance, but is going ahead. [...]

I have booked Friday off work. It’s my first day off alone since… yeesh, probably since before Hannah was born.
I timed it to coincide with the kids having the day off school so that I could register them in a daycamp and so I’d have until 5 to myself (instead of having to pick kids [...]