The other day Kevin, the guy that works for us, walked in and asked what I was doing as I was typing furiously behind my computer. "Writing! I'm actually writing!" I said, full of glee and excitement. He looked at me blank faced, "Oh? What are you writing?" and I looked at him in confusion, "Like- I'm writing. I'm a writer." (duhhhhhh!) "Are you writing a book?" "Maybe... someday." … [Read more...]
Six Months
I was trying to write something extremely meaningful and profound to celebrate our six month anniversary of living in Colorado but it simply wasn't happening. A dear friend told me to stop trying to be so profound and just write something- anything and WOW- she was right. The only slightly profound thing in might have said in my other blog post was that you can live a lifetime in 6 months, so … [Read more...]
Sometimes Parenting Sucks
It stinks that he's beautiful, the boy who Summit doesn't get along with because an extremely petty part of me wants him to be hideous. (I started to type, "the boy that bullies Summit", but that would be an overstatement as from all accounts they antagonize each other constantly.) That fact that they equally harass each other is oddly comforting actually. Summit has been bullied over the … [Read more...]
School Pics: Colorado Edition
OK, so I kind of fibbed. These are morning of school day pics, or, as I like to call it, MOSDP. I remember last fall when people were posting pictures of their kids on Facebook on the morning of the school picture day and the "controversy" it caused. "Great. Now moms are posting pictures of their kids BEFORE school pictures?!" One mom lamented. "What happened to just posting school … [Read more...]