Tag: holidays
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And I’m Spent
So in just six short hours we will be mid-frenzy trying to get out the door to the airport. The children are nestled all snug in their beds, actually all having a sleepover in one room to accommodate the house sitter and her son who will be holding down the fort while we are gone.…
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The eve of the thing in the place
So tomorrow morning at the most ungodly hour imaginable we will be harassing our children into clothes and stuffing them in our friend’s van for the quick trip to the airport. The housesitter has been engaged, rides to and from have been arranged, tickets printed, clothing packed, lists checked and rechecked. I’m not sure it…
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Mustn’t. Tell. Children. Yet.
So we ultimately decided to spare the hapless travelers at the airport and tell the children about Disneyland when we wake them up to go. We’re pretty certain that the shrill cries of girlish delight will grate on the ears of persons unrelated to the girls in question, particularly at that hour of the morning.…
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The Last Valentine’s Day Post, I Swear
So I was in kind of a funky place all day vis-a-vis the whole Valentine thing. Not so much because I was feeling pressure to meet some societal standard of adequate gifting etc. The standard is self-imposed and is one that I’m comfortable with. No, the problem was that the item that I had carefully…
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More About Valentine’s Day
So last night The Lovely Rhonda’s girls were getting their Valentine’s cards done for school today. My kid had already had her Valentine party at school because her teacher is off for a few days starting today and didn’t want to miss it, so they had it yesterday. We weren’t paying that much attention to…
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Valentine’s Day
So today is Valentine’s Day, or as we like to call it, “Thursday.” We actually do a little bit of celebrating of Valentine’s Day, but nothing over the top. Everybody gripes about it: its origins, the commercialism, etc. As with most things, I’m rather a moderate on this topic. Personally I think it’s kind of…
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Say goodnight, 2012.
So it’s New Year’s Eve. Shortly I’m going to log off and make fudge and take it over to some friends’ house and sit and play games and talk to people and eat things dipped into other things and drink things mixed with more things (but not very many things because I want to come…
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Yesterday
So yesterday I woke up Angry, and the other six dwarves: Cranky, Pissy, Funky, Disorganized, Impatient, and Depressive. I suspect this was a combination of hormones (because I am elderly) and a delayed reaction to what happened in Connecticut. Those babies. Those teachers. Those families. My heart hurts. I think everybody’s heart hurts right now.…
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Why I Cannot Clean The House Except Under Tremendous Pressure
So it’s Thanksgiving next week, and as always we are booked solid until Thursday morning. The Lovely Rhonda is working her four-day stretch, ending on Tuesday, so she’ll be relatively useless on Wednesday. I say that completely without rancor because her workdays are twelve hours long and sandwiched between forty minutes’ drive each way. We…
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