Today was a great day. And old fashioned, slow summer day. Number 7 and I had a date with good friends of ours. We packed a picnic and headed up to Kent Falls, in Kent, CT. We went for a hike. We stopped along the way to take pictures and to take a little dip […]
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Summer As It Should Be
Here in CT we still have a couple weeks of school left before it’s officially summer. But for me, summer really begins today, on Memorial Day. And every summer I tell myself I’m going to slow down and enjoy it, but this summer I really fucking mean it. It’s the last summer before Number 7 […]
And that’s exactly how I want him to think of me.
The last three or four times I was on vacation, I was pregnant, so I didn’t really care what I weighed or how imperfect my body was while I was at the beach in a bathing suit. But now I’m not pregnant, and I’m heavier than I’d like to be. Twenty years ago, I would […]
TGITLMOTSY (Thank God It’s the Last Monday of the School Year)
We are in our last week of school. Yesterday was so nice that we let the kids stay in the pool after Number 3’s baseball game and then we ate outside on the deck and then we had to get the little guys into bed and well, I had put off telling everyone to get […]
I kind of forgot to enjoy summer. Until today.
I had such high hopes for this summer. I had so many things I wanted to do. And now, here we are, less than three weeks from the first day of school, and I dropped the ball. Again. Almost a whole summer has gone by, and I haven’t really enjoyed any of it. Our financial situation has […]
Did my kids read for 600 minutes this summer? I don’t really know. And I don’t really care.
I was a teacher before I had kids. A young, opinionated, judgemental teacher. I often found myself saying, “How hard is it?” How hard is it to clean out a backpack? How hard is it to fill out a permission slip? How hard is it to check your kid’s work? How hard is it to […]