For one reason or another I’ve never taken the kid trick-or-treating. After watching the kids come to our house last year, Bella was determined to dress up and go out this year. I wasn’t feeling up to much in the way of making costumes;...
Ben with pumpkins before they were carved. Today, among other things, we carved our pumpkins. I didn’t get any photos during the process as I was up to my elbows in pumpkin guts. But Dom did put together the following video. I was a little...
—1— Sophie whacked Bella with a metal bucket. (This is not an unusual event, something similar happens several times a day. Life is never dull round here.) Much weeping and wailing ensued. Of course. Bella is a drama queen. She needed...
Who could stay inside and clean house on a day like this? This morning was warm! Like 76 degrees warm! By the time breakfast was done and the dishes and I’d folded and put away a couple of loads of laundry and baked a loaf of bread the early...
Photo taken with Photo Booth on my MacBook Poor miserable teething Ben just cried himself to sleep on my lap. Now he’s all curled up sweet and sniffling on my chest. I love the way a baby will continue to snuffle after he’s fallen asleep...
—1— My dad returned to Texas on Tuesday and two little girls went into mourning. Bella threw temper tantrums all day long and was quite out of sorts. They were so very glad to have him here. For six days he gave them his undivided...
Boston sky line Today we visited World’s End in Hingham. Our first visit, but I’m sure not our last. Such a beautiful place! Me and the girls. They insisted I walk down the hill with them. It was a chilly October day though and very...
Recently Melissa Wiley had a conversation with someone on Twitter (I’m too lazy to go back and find the exact conversation) about Connie Willis’s novel Doomsday Book and asked if there were other Willis titles she should catch. In...
Now that I’m finally over the hump of the first trimester, I feel like I’m surfacing from a long dream. Just before I found out I was expecting, I was just beginning to feel like Ben was finally getting to the age where he wasn’t...
Somehow recently I stumbled across this story from The Telegraph about Temple Gradin, whose life was evidently the subject of a recent Emmy-winning biopic. I know I’ve read something about Grandin before. A book? An essay? Something. I’m...