This morning at the kitchen table: F: Mom, are “long” and “short” rhyming words? ME: No, those are opposites. F: Eyes rolling skyward. Ughhhhh. Learning. She’s right – this whole learning thing is just exhausting. ….. This morning, in the car (E has no school today, so she was in the car as well and…
Month: February 2013
lucky thirteen: a love story and a bathroom
We’re currently celebrating our house’s thirteenth birthday (thirteen years with us) and its 128th birthday on this street. To watch and read about the whole process in those early years (pre-blog), check out our rehab slide shows, nine of them, here. Is it a little weird to celebrate love and a bathroom on Valentine’s Day? …
happy valentine’s day
I had a small cookie order this week (4 soccer balls) and so I decided I had no excuse not to use the remaining cookie dough from that batch to make Valentine cookies for the girls’ friends and teachers. It turned out to be a pretty busy week, but I had planned ahead for that…