I want to write, but I’m totally exhausted.
Exhausted from the United Way chili cook-off/bake sale fundraiser today, and exhausted from taking the girls shopping for halloween costumes.
They drain me. They are both so demanding of my time, and so demanding of a totally equal share of my time, that they pull me in different directions [...]
I don’t know how many times I’ve used the phrase “kids say the darndest things”, but they truly do! Ciel was playing with her Webkinz monkey – I think she was slinging it around her shoulders. Paris said to her “What ARE you trying to do, Ciel?” to which she replied “.. just trying to [...]
It’s been just a couple of weeks since I cut up the credit cards, and I’m looking forward to my debt-free future with renewed enthusiasm!
Yes, it was hard. I wanted to convince myself that I could keep one card in a draw somewhere because I would surely have a future emergency that necessitated the [...]
An interesting conversation happened on the way home.
Ciel: I wish I didn’t have to grow up.
Me: We should call you Peter Panette.
C: Just because I called my Webkinz wiener dog Wienette, doesn’t mean you should call me Peter Panette!
M: Michaela Jackson?
C: Oooh! You should hear what Mason said about Michael Jackson!
M: What?
C: It doesn’t matter.
M: [...]