It was this time last year that I began this blog. That weekend I thought about it on the drive up and the drive back from our annual amusement park trip – how I would start it, what it would be. The two of us tossed around titles and subtitles, themes and mastheads. The first…
Month: August 2008
McRamblings
We never set out to avoid McDonald’s. We never set out to raise a child who will not eat a french fry, a Chicken McNugget, not even a Happy Meal. We never thought we’d have a kid who, at five, doesn’t even know what a Mc-anything is. But we do, and we have, and she…
quiet house
With the kiddo packed up and shipped off to the grandparents for a few days, the house is strangely silent, save for the occasional whoops and hollers during the gold medal beach volleyball match. (I’m just glad that all the ruckus around the skimpiness of the “uniforms” for this sport was finally trumped by the…