Today was a quiet day. We did the grocery shopping and otherwise just stayed home. It was cool and rainy, highs in the 60s, feeling more like fall than summer. Since I made a sort of commitment to blog every day this week as part of Jen’s Epic...
Maybe vacation week is actually the best week to pledge to do a blog post a day. Now I have an incentive to not sit on the photos from our trips but instead to just get them up on the blog right away. So today we went to the Franklin Park Zoo...
Long time readers may have noticed that I’ve been stuck on my Blogging The Waste Land series for months and months now. (Actually, almost a year.)Part of the problem was being unable to sustain two long-term blog series simultaneously. The...
No, this isn’t a story about the new royal baby in England. It’s about my very own royal family: Princess Sophie and Prince Ben. Lovely Lucia with droll on her chin. (Photo by Dom with the SLR.) On Monday night Dom was in the yard firing...
Dom’s on vacation this week and next. So bring on the fun! Today we went to the Museum of Science. Dom had tickets to the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit. Plus the kids have never been to the MoS and we figured it was ‘bout time. Looking at...
Just for fun I’m linking up with Jen’s Epic Blogging Challenge, committing to doing seven posts in seven days. While that wouldn’t normally be a challenge, this week Dom is on vacation so I anticipate being a bit busy...
This exchange happened at dinner the other night. (Dom was in the other room changing a diaper.) Sophie: “When I’m a momma I get to do whatever I want.” Me: maniacal laughter. Sophie: “My kids will do whatever I say.”...
Dear Egyptology Lady, You should have seen the look on my seven year-old’s face when I told her there was going to be an Egypt talk at the library. See, she’s had this Egyptian life and culture picture book since she was a toddler. I...
This Vermeer just makes me happy. At my brother-in-law’s Fourth of July party I was chatting about homeschooling with another mother who has been toying with the idea. I told her about some of the things we’ve been doing. When I...
So the subject of how marriage is portrayed came up in conversation with a friend recently. And it made me curious—there are plenty of literary depictions of courtship and romance of course. But if you are a married woman looking for literary...
