It’s perfectly fine to ask for help…unless you’re me, that is. Or, I suspect, you. If your mother, spouse, friend, or sibling needed help, wouldn’t you leap to give it? Wouldn’t you stretch out your hand instantly? And sometimes you don’t know they need help unless they ask. Why don’t they just ASK? Because it’s hard. Because we live in … Read More
A Very Crappy Tuesday: The Universe Has It In For Miss Murder
They say Tuesday’s child is full of grace. Apparently that isn’t so! This morning was off to a rousing start when I slept through my alarm. Oldest had decided to go traipsing around outside in bare feet, scaring me and the neighbors. I got him settled, the power inexplicably went off (why?),and then I managed to get Middlest to her … Read More
Listen, Kids, Mama Has a Deadline, So…
That’s right. Keep yourselves out of trouble, thanks.
This Is What Love Looks Like
I’m under some pretty intense deadlines and other stresses. How do you eat an elephant? You unhinge your jaw and try to devour all of it at once. Naturally. I came home from an unscheduled grocery store run (Arg, it ate up half an hour I didn’t intend to lose!) to this beautiful spread by Middlest. “You need to eat, … Read More
The First Day of School
It’s all crazy. Lunches were made. Pictures were taken. And then the craziness ensued. There was a bus, yes, but it was taking my son to the wrong school. We just managed to get him to school, then turn around and retrace our steps to get our daughter to her school. Now the baby (hello, baby) thinks that … Read More
Can’t Talk Now. Meeting A Deadline.
Which is so awesome! The last week has been a blur since Baby Cyborg Ninja came home. Why is she a cyborg, you ask? They wouldn’t bust her out of the hospital unless her monitors came with her. I plug Sweet Thang into the wall and let her charge. Run and tell that. I’m finishing the edited draft of my … Read More
Guide Me, Kenny Rogers!
I did the craziest thing. I thought back to when I was a kid out in the country, and we’d run around singing Kenny Roger’s “The Gambler”. (Don’t you judge me!) To this day I think of the words, “Know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em, know when to walk away, know when to run.” Ladies and … Read More
WIP Wednesday: The Gauntlet is Thrown
Wow, and it was thrown in a big way. My goal is to have my Williams Project in the hands of Mr. Agenty Man J by November first. This gives me a concrete deadline as well as clearing my plate for my fifth NaNoWriMo, yeah? I can totally do it. First I have to take all of my separate … Read More