July 22, 2010
- Not My Child
By Beck
Almost a year ago exactly, she was born. (…)
July 15, 2010
- A Loom Of Her Own
By Beck
The Girl has wanted a loom for several years now, despite never having actually seen a loom in person. (…)
July 8, 2010
- Crybaby
By Beck
If you really want to see Fate have a good chuckle at your expense, just try laughing at another parent's predicament. (…)
June 17, 2010
- Bears In The Forest
By Beck
The Girl gets to stay up later than her siblings, being 11 and all, and she wanted to watch some tv with me last night, which sounded FINE by me - an evening walk with a friend had left me disturbingly tired. (…)
June 3, 2010
- Muffins
By Beck
The Baby (and whenever I call her that, I feel the need to add that she is five now and NOT ANYTHING LIKE A BABY) just made some muffins, which are baking away in the oven as I write. (…)
May 20, 2010
- Upwards
By Beck
It's been a confused couple of days, weather-wise - for much of the day, we have clear blue skies and rather intense heat (a balmy 24c!) and then all at once the sky turns dark ominous grey and we're in the middle of a thunderstorm. (…)
May 13, 2010
- Feet
By Beck
It would be really great if I could learn to enjoy that foot-in-mouth feeling that comes with saying something unintentionally really boneheaded. (…)
April 29, 2010
- The Long Winter
By Beck
My youngest brother came over last night and we watched a really, really funny and rather reprehensible movie (okay, it was Pineapple Express). (…)
April 15, 2010
- The Ghost Garden
By Beck
The flowers are coming back - mostly crocuses right now, which I forget about every year until April and then they take the very breath from me with their beauty which looks so breakable and yet thrives through snow and neglect. (…)
April 8, 2010
- Flowers Everywhere
By Beck
I woke up to a blizzard this morning, which was a bit disconcerting since it's April. (…)
April 1, 2010
- April First
By Beck
My 5 Minutes post today is late, late, late - and my excuse is that I totally forgot that it was Thursday and then when I DID remember (is it "remembering" when you overhear someone mention that today is Thursday? (…)
March 25, 2010
- My Skinny Love
By Beck
Two of my three kids are underweight, the Girl most noticeably so. (…)
March 4, 2010
- Almost Spring
By Beck
Last night we went to the library at 7 p.m. and I found something disconcerting the whole way - which was, I realized, that it was still not dark out. Spring! (…)
February 25, 2010
- Trees
By Beck
Last week's post here was a doozy. And yes, it IS sad that our children's childhoods are so fleeting from our perspective, that our pretty children do not stay. (…)
February 18, 2010
- The End
By Beck
I've started - I noticed today with a little shock of possibly amusement - started watching for mentions of families with children older than mine. (…)
February 11, 2010
- My Valentine
By Beck
I am planning on making chocolate cake this weekend - a mocha cake with multiple layers of buttercream frosting. (…)
February 4, 2010
- Sickly
By Beck
This week saw some Medical Excitement for me - I phoned the local clinic, because I'd had severe chest pains for several days and my ARM had gone numb and that was it, I was having a heart attack, and the local clinic was like GO TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM RIGHT NOW so I did. (…)
January 28, 2010
- Paring
By Beck
The phone rang very early this morning, which made me reach for it with that feeling of impending doom. What horror would I hear?
It was my daughter's best friend. (…)
January 21, 2010
- The Family Face
By Beck
I posted one of the super-rare pictures of my kids yesterday, because it was my son's birthday and he asked me, wistfully, why I never put pictures of him on my blog. (…)
January 14, 2010
- Everything Must Go
By Beck
Recently it has been very very very obvious that puberty is lurking right around the corner in my house. (…)
