Weekend + Workout Recap
Friday night we went downtown to see the Let’s Glow with the kids. They bitched and moaned the whole time but then decided it was fun. They do that a lot these ...
Category: Parenting & Family
Five on Friday: Life Updates Edition
WORK. My hard class is driving me crazy. My new favorite phrase is, I’m not going to work harder than you are, and it really sums up how I’m feeling...
The first couple days of break
Yesterday was a lovely first day of break. I never left the house. I didn’t change out of my pjs. I never even put on a bra! The weather was cold and wet and gr...
Who does what around here (a post about our division of labor)
It’s a quiet Sunday morning. It’s 9am, but no one is up yet except the cats. The 11yo is with his grandparents and the 14yo is still asleep (as are ...
Five on Friday: Things I hope to do this break
IT IS THANKSGIVING BREAK! Thank the gods. I’m so, so happy it’s finally hear. I don’t care much about actual Thanksgiving day but I do love a week off of school...
Not just a regular Wednesday
It was not just a regular Wednesday for a number of reasons. I left work early, because we had no staff meeting and I had to be at my son’s school for his...
End of week update: Birthday weekend accomplished!
Oh wow, what a week. What a weekend! I’m so, so glad it’s over. Friday I was pretty zonked because I couldn’t fall asleep until 2am on Thursda...
Five on Friday: Progress made
Conversation with husband We never did actually write out our ideal weeks, but we thought about them enough to have a productive conversation about what we each...
Five on Friday: Crying in a Safeway parking lot Edition
If September kicked my metaphorical ass (it did), this past week was the part where it punched me in the face over and over again. For real this September was n...
Six on Saturday
Home: House is a mess again. I feel like, superficially, I’ve undone all the work I put in for our trip last February. I know that’s not true because the drawer...