With more and more states shutting down schools for 2/3/4 weeks or indefinitely, we are all finding ourselves in unanticipated situations. And they are situations that many of us have not ever really had to navigate. Because social distancing removes a lot of our options. It’s not like summer vacation. There is no camp to […]
Life at My House
Disappointment Is Inevitable
The boys’ high school swim season in Connecticut is about four months long. And the way a high school swim season works is you train your ass off for the majority of the season. For like a hundred days, you bust your butt in the pool. You get the shit kicked out of you six […]
SHE DID IT
A little over two years ago, Number 3 and 4 swam in a swim meet at MIT. Number 3 was twelve years old, and Number 4 was eleven. The meet was trials in the morning with the top twenty kids in each event coming back to swim in finals at night. There were more than […]
Decluttering My Life, One Thing At A Time
I suffer from Fear Of Missing Out syndrome. BIG TIME. Well, until recently, that is. I think my FOMO issue happened kind of gradually. Or it increased and intensified gradually. When you have lots of kids, you get used to a certain level of chaos. You get used to messes. Lots and lots of messes. […]
I’m Done Waiting To Be A Certain Size To Buy Clothes
I gained 7 pounds in January and February. SEVEN POUNDS. I know why it happened. It’s due to a bunch of different reasons. I overscheduled myself big time in January and February and I’m wasn’t getting enough sleep. I don’t drink enough water in general. I’m using food to deal with stuff that’s going on […]
Today Was A New Low
I had a few mom fails today. First, this week is Read Across America Week I think. Or something like that. We had a busy swim meet weekend, and Number 7 didn’t unzip her backpack until about five minutes before the bus was coming this morning, so whatever came home on Friday — okay, let’s […]
