Driving the kids home this afternoon, Rachel was spoiling for a fight. She had a doll along so she looked Hannah in the eye and said, “MY baby,” hugging the doll to her possessively.
Hannah looked back at her and played along. “MY blankie!” she said, though with better humour than Rachel. And so it began, [...]

I haven’t blogged, lately have I? I’ve been busy having a beautiful Christmas (evidence above).
Feel like there’s so much I should say. Probably also, so much I shouldn’t say.
I have here an old draft of a post I started to write after my belly dance group’s Christmas party. I’m going to preserve it, even though [...]

We’ve been together for six years. It’s no lifetime, for sure, especially when you spend the first two years just figuring out that you even are together. But by the time I’d been with Del for six years, I knew it was over. Six years with one person has always felt like a lifetime before.
One [...]

I never update. But I hate blogs that update about what lazy bloggers they are. (Do, or do not. There is no “whining meta-apology”.)
Tonight might be the wrong night to update though. This kid gave me such a hard time today. And I was all burnt out, so, after my regular end-of-the-night-beer with Ian, I [...]

When I tell the story of our buying this house, so many people have said, ‘well you know it was meant to be.’And other such-like things.
I tend to roll my eyes - but I don’t judge too harshly. This is what people do - we tend to personify the forces in our lives because it’s [...]

I have a headache.
I have a sore back.
I also have a baby who stopped breathing today.
I wasn’t there.
“Hannah gave us a scare,” he told me as I walked in the door.
She was playing around. Rocking back and forth, banging her head on a pillow. Then lost her balance and she fell back onto her bum. [...]

I bought new rims for my Swift yesterday. Ian and I ordered them some time ago. And Ian wanted me to get bigger wheels because he’s a car guy and he knows from cool. And I didn’t care, I just didn’t want to sacrifice too much ride quality but I did want chrome. Ian and [...]

I’m home sick with a sick Hannah today. So I don’t know if the sick Hannah will let me finish this post. Mostly we’ve spent all day either napping, or with her curled up in my lap while I read to her. We read for over an hour this morning. My throat hurts.
But anyhow, Hannah’s [...]

Running your copy past a committee is like running your sandcastle past the ocean.
There will be something left when it’s done. But it will be formless, meaningless and full of debris.

Everybody ready for a boring update?
I’ve been kind of not updating. I think I’ve been waiting to be clever. And god knows how long that’s going to take. So I’m back here, prepared to not be clever. How about I’ll just tell you stuff I’ve been up to?
I had a birthday. I was pretty unexcited [...]