Karen E. informs me that John Updike died this week. I’ve never read any of his prose, but his Child’s Calendar is my current favorite book of children’s poetry. I wrote a review of that here. Last year I also posted an Easter poem...
I chose this book because it sounded like such an intriguing combination of memoir and science: a neurobiologist discovers her mother is suffering with Alzheimer’s and must become her mother’s caregiver, even as she is pregnant with her...
Bella was wandering around the kitchen with my broom upraised, bristles in the air. I asked her what she was doing and in reply she bent down at her small broom, “My candle, my candle,” she cried. Oh I see, she’s pretending the...
Bella’s bedroom door inexplicably has a hole in the latch plate leading into the the hollow door frame. This morning she dropped a crayon into the hole and immediately started howling, “My crayon, my crayon.” “Sorry...
In the past few weeks it has slowly crept up on me: a new obsession. Well, ok, it’s not totally new. I’ve found before that once I start a sewing project I tend to become a bit … single minded. It’s funny because in general I...
I owe a huge thank you to my sweet husband who gave my blog a little bit of a face lift this weekend. He added a baby ticker, so we can all keep track of how the littlest Bettinelli is growing; a twitter feed, so that no random thought of mine might...
For my grandmother, Millie Scott, who is in the hospital.
Melanie, Sophia, and Isabella watch opera from Domenico Bettinelli on Vimeo. It was posted as 12 different You Tube videos. As each one finished, Isabella would demand, “Another video!” It kept both of them quiet for some time...
Thanks to Lissa we had a lovely Bach evening. While Dom cooked supper, both girls sat in my lap and watched all twelve of the You Tube Magnificat videos. Yep, the whole thing. And then when we finished we started all over again. With only a couple...
I started this early in the week and really expected to post it before Friday. But I didn’t, so I can officially enter it into this week’s 7 Quick Takes Friday at Jen’s blog. -1- I’ve been listening to The Lord of the Rings...
