Elizabeth on Dec 09 2008 | Filed under: Parenting, news
About a year ago, I turned in my two-week notice and opted to work from home as a mom rather than work from an office (with no windows) as a mom and sometimes crazed lady.
I’ve learned a lot this year, including making sure not to lock yourself out of the house with a kid on [...]
Elizabeth on Dec 05 2008 | Filed under: news
My son and I spent part of the afternoon cleaning out the rabbit cage. Our new bunny, who landed in our neighbor’s garage and found his/her way to us and is becoming a family fixture.
Watching the rabbit hop today, my son commented that every time he sees the bunny hop, he believes the rabbit is [...]
Elizabeth on Dec 04 2008 | Filed under: news
Lately I’ve written a lot of wistful posts (which I haven’t published) … The holidays tend to bring that out in me. (I’m sure I’ll have a whole batch once the only music I hear is Christmas music…probably a month’s worth just hearing the lyrics “I’ll be home for Christmas…”) I’ll hold off on posting [...]
Elizabeth on Nov 20 2008 | Filed under: news
Our 1-year old is very much in a clingy stage right now. So much so that I rarely feel as if I can walk into another room without her little arms wrapped around my calves.
Often she and Mac have a battle royale to sit on my lap or to be picked up.
Watching our independent 7-year [...]
Elizabeth on Nov 18 2008 | Filed under: news
Our daughter (7) is furious. She has just told us, yelling from her bedroom, that she no longer wanted to live with us. She has had a bad day.
It is her brother’s birthday.
And it is not fair.
(To put it in some context, she is mad that we threw her a surprise birthday party in June [...]
Elizabeth on Nov 13 2008 | Filed under: news
Our neighborhood became “One Tree Hill” earlier this week. A few of my neighbors and I speculated what that meant, when we learned that they would film on our block. (Apparently an episode to air in December, 6th season.)
Some neighbors were rather grumpy about the anticipated noise. Others ignored the resident letters we received…which were [...]
Elizabeth on Nov 10 2008 | Filed under: news
Great time on Saturday at a birthday party for a five-year old friend of Mac and Veronica’s. You can see Veronica in the amazing foam pit she jumped into.
I’ve been wanting to investigate the gymnastics activities around town because I need activities for a five- and seven-year old at the same time….
Both kids had a [...]
Elizabeth on Nov 06 2008 | Filed under: news
This picture is of my neighbor’s garage door, painted during the summer. (I can’t find the progression pictures I had planned to post, taken as he applied each layer.)
Many volunteers helped turned this state blue, but we seemed to be watching them pass through our neighborhood. (The Obama headquarters is down the block.) But it [...]
Elizabeth on Nov 06 2008 | Filed under: news
It’s already November? How did that happen?
See Petra’s pirate tattoo? It’s from the fall festival…more than a couple weeks ago. I’m not mentioning it to point out how indelible the temporary tattoo can be or anything about Petra’s bathing habits. I mention her tattoo because a couple weeks later and we are finally getting around [...]
Elizabeth on Oct 28 2008 | Filed under: news
Sunday I returned from Tampa and a couple days away at a conference. With three young kids, I haven’t had much of a chance to travel by plane or had time to myself in quite a while. (Many years, actually….)
Travel went pretty much without a hitch, although having to wake up at 3 a.m. to [...]
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