Well, as you can see my blog post a day resolve crumbled when the time change hit me with the tired stick. (Not to mention that I’ve been unhealthily glued to the coronavirus news.) But I’m going to do my best to get back up and try...
Ok Sunday night brain dump: what we did this weekend. On Saturday Bella got up early and went to a BSA workshop: “Merit Badge University” where counselors work with scouts to help them complete requirements for merit badges they are...
So Wednesday was Sophie’s birthday– she’s 12 now. I’ve got three kids in double digits and I look at my big girls and… they’re really big. Bella is maybe a bit taller than Dom and Sophie is sneaking up on them...
A few more thoughts on the novel, which I wrote a bit of first thoughts about yesterday. I’ve known women abused, traumatized (by priests, by husbands, by fathers) for whom religious things are a trigger, a door opening to the wide gulfs of anxiety...
I finished reading Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy last night. It’s a beautiful novel but I’m not sure what I have to say about it. This was my second read through and the thing that connected with me most unexpectedly this time was not the...
A day of appointments: yearly physical for me in the morning, doctor for Ben in the afternoon. It was a warm day and the kids were running around outside with no jackets. The crocuses and grape hyacinths are sending up little green shoots in the...
I don’t really have much to say tonight, nor time to say it. Today was a rather busy Monday. It started off well. Ben, Anthony, and Lucy all got started on school work early, finished quickly, and with minimal grumbling or complaining...
BSA Polar Challenge On Saturday Bella and Sophie participated in the BSA polar challenge. They had to be up at 5am so they could ride to the event with the other girls in their troop. Their scout troop is really small, only four girls–...
