Always evolving, Never Average
Last week someone asked me how I handle our laundry. While I am still working on some areas of my life, in the last year I have managed to come up with a system that works well for us and allows me to stay on top of the laundry situation. Up until November or 2017, …Read More
I love swimming. I LOVE IT. I love it for so many reasons. I love it for the friends it has given me and for the places it has taken me. I love it for helping me discover what my strengths are — and also my weaknesses. I love it for teaching me to just …Read More
I have been doing this advent “calendar” with the kids for the last few years, and it is still one of their favorite holiday traditions. Well, the older kids don’t care so much now, but Number 5, 6 and 7 still really love it. We have a lot of Christmas picture books, so I wrap …Read More
My marriage is really fucked up. It is unhealthy and troubled, and it has been that way for a long, long time. My husband and I go through varying levels of dysfunction, and the past few months have been at like Level 10 Fuckupedness. There hasn’t been any infidelity. There is no addiction. Just an …Read More
The Sunday after Thanksgiving, we always put our Christmas tree up. We started doing this ten years ago after we moved into our house. At the time my grandma was still alive, and she LOVED kids and I knew how much she appreciated spending time with mine and just watching them. So my parents would …Read More
Every year we get our Christmas tree the weekend after Thanksgiving. I am not a go-to-a-Christmas-tree-farm-and-cut-down-your-own-tree kind of girl. Back when the kids were younger I just couldn’t imagine doing something like that with all the kids, and now we have an established tradition. There is a grocery store here in Connecticut called Stew Leonard’s. …Read More
We are a couple days away from Thanksgiving, and I just want to give you all a reminder. The holidays, and Thanksgiving in particular, are meant to be a time for you to really think about what really matters to you. And who really matters to you. To spend time with those people if you …Read More
The pool the kids practice at is a community pool. It’s a 50 meter pool with a diving well, so it’s pretty big. When we are there for swim practice, half of the pool is used by the swim team, and the other half of the pool is divided into a few lap lanes and …Read More
I have never been a fan of winter, really. And it’s not really even winter yet. It’s still technically fall for another month. But today we had our first snowstorm here in Connecticut. The kids had an early dismissal because the snow was supposed to start around the time the kids were getting out of …Read More
This morning I had a little extra time, so I made some cinnamon rolls for the kids for breakfast. I use a can of crescent rolls to make them. It’s really pretty simple. Here’s the recipe. This was around 6:50 in the morning. Number 5 is my early riser. She’s usually awake before 6:30, and …Read More
