Contemptuous sighs and lethal stink-eyes Silent treatments that last for days Their digits double, omnipotent Our IQs fail by half, dotage Teen years, an exhausting level Of parenting purgatory Still, I survive
Category: Real Life
Have camel, will travel
Tomorrow morning, hours before the sun comes up, my husband is taking our daughter to the airport. She’ll make two connections, and take train ride, before boarding another plane to carry her across the ocean to Northern Africa. For the next three weeks she’ll be living and studying in a foreign country… in the grand … Continue reading Have camel, will travel
Christmas past memories
Years ago, I made my children an Advent calendar. Finding the right trinkets to fill each pocket took three months. We don’t put the calendar out anymore. Christmas, apparently, is for little kids.
with a bang or a whimper?
It's 5:33 a.m., Friday, Dec. 12, 2012. And, I'm awake. Not because the world is destined to end in less than 20 minutes, but because this is my usual insomnia-induced, circadian rhythm hell. All my peeps are tucked, asleep in bed, oblivious to the pending doom. I'm fighting a powerful urge to rouse them all, making them … Continue reading with a bang or a whimper?
Lived in
Between my OCD-collector son, and “I-might-need-that” packrat husband, we’re one cardboard box from a Hoarders episode. The only time my home will be spectacularly clean is at my wake.
Extended warranty
EKG, X-ray Anemia blood-letting Warranty expired Been putting off some routine medical tests, but I finally got around to scheduling several of them recently. Had my blood pressure checked (all good), had my first EKG (heart is in excellent shape), got a chest X-ray, and a nice phlebotomist liberated a couple of vials of blood. … Continue reading Extended warranty
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