Serenity… an expedition

Although, lately, I’ve been mostly leaving stuff alone and just puttering around here, on this site. I am not sure if that is a good or a bad thing. A good thing at the moment, I think – but a bad thing in the long run if it means that I’ve just lost interest in [...]

So, almost as soon as I sat down after giving the kids their dinner plates howls of outrage started piercing the air. Now, I am not the best cook but usually nothing I put before them produces *that* reaction. On my way to see what was wrong I was able to make out some of [...]

I have a story to tell. It’s about the day I went across the street to the convenience store to get milk and walked right into a… well, I’m still not sure what to call it. Maybe you have a name for it. A gift, anyway, it was. When I came out of the store [...]

That the five-year-old grows up soon enough, and remembers this age enough, to tell me what he means by an “owl butterfly”. Because one apparently came in our house the other day. Through the door, or his imagination, who knows? Still, I am curious. And a tad cautious. [small pre-posting update] Who knew? They exist [...]

“We’re not keeping him long…. my mom’s going to take him back and get a new one that is not so bad.“ Said the five year old of the two year old – who got himself dressed and grabbed his supplies (a bottle and two diapers), in hopes he could go to school too.

The five year old just informed me that I am spoiling his life. I didn’t think I’d get to start doing that ‘til he was at least 12 or so. I hope that means that by the time he actually is a teen his life will have been thoroughly spoiled already and we can be [...]

The five year old, shrugging into his new favorite garment,  a black suit jacket that he wears with everything – jeans, shorts, jerseys, what have you – casually tosses out, as he walks to the door: Grandma, do I look like the President of the United States now? Yes,  my goofy grandson.  Indeed, you do.

A rare quiet moment here, thank the goddes. To make a change from the regular cold or flu that’s been hanging around all winter, a little stomach bug walked in the house with one of my grandchildren last week, when they returned from a few days spent at their dad’s house, and it’s jumped from [...]

I type too slow. But it’s not entirely my fault. It usually goes something like this: News breaks! I am full of outrage (or the even more furious poutrage) and sit down at my computer to start to send my displeasure clattering away through the intertubes, I’m really into a groove, just getting ready to [...]

My little experiment of writing something every-single-day, even if it’s complete nonsense, is working out nicely. Granted, it’s only been 15 days but already I can see the effects. Not so much in my writing as in my willingness to actually sit down at the keyboard, write something and click “publish”. I have a before [...]