Our last day of school was wonderful. J will have the teacher we’d hoped she’d have for next year, and she and her three friends enjoyed their mini-party, for which J had made posters and blown up balloons. The girls continued an elaborate imaginary game that has dominated recess all year, played dress-up, and frolicked … [Read more…]
Cute W loves cinnamon rolls. We’ve always made the pre-packaged kind, which I don’t love. It leaves that gross-tastic coating of fake on my tongue. So for Father’s Day I decided to try to go homemade with this recipe from allrecipes.com. Oh, they were delicious. And not too hard to make. I followed a reviewer’s … [Read more…]
I spent much of the other day grumpy. But it’s tough to stay grumpy when you receive a bunch of personalized thank-you notes for volunteering from elementary school kids. My favorite volunteer job is helping in the library. I coordinate the other volunteers, too, and when I’m recruiting I always say that it’s like going … [Read more…]
Yesterday was crazy. I have been officially freaking out about the local school budget re-vote. Please don’t tell me not to freak out. That is impossible. A few of us parents started talking about getting together to try to get out “yes” votes, and then they had a meeting that I missed, which is when … [Read more…]
This weekend whizzed by and wasn’t nearly restful enough for me, don’t know about you folks. Do you have your summer planned yet? Me neither, but here’s a big list of camps (I like the week-by-week listing better, myself). Hey, did you know that now there’s a new women’s elite soccer league? I’m sure we’ll … [Read more…]
Phew! The master bath took longer than we expected, but it’s finally done, and we love it! At the end of the project we’d added a backsplash that we really didn’t like, so that had to get ripped down and replaced, and the new windows had a shipping snafu that had our contractor wringing his … [Read more…]
I don’t know why leaving for gymnastics at 4:55 every Wednesday comes to a complete surprise to me every. single. gd. week. I’ve been doing it for months. Ideally, my plan is always to have dinner mostly-available by 4:30 pm so J can eat, and I try to make it something that’s easy to snack … [Read more…]
. . . to know where I got the idea for this tasty treat? I’m not a big OJ drinker, myself, but I had a bunch left over when my (brilliant) Mimosa-makings for Niska-Day parade-watching last weekend. Unsurprisingly, we ran out of Champagne before juice. How’s Memorial Day Weekend going? We were pretty excited to … [Read more…]
You know things aren’t wonderful when I wake up extra early in the morning and can’t go back to sleep. Maintaining sleep is one of my greatest talents. But our school district’s budget was voted down last night–not just voted down, but, like, trampled upon–and now who knows what schools are going to close or … [Read more…]
The fish remain alive, and they seem pretty perky. We have a ridiculous, noisy, jerry-rigged filtration system, and if the pets survive through the week, we’ll probably buy something more suitable this weekend. Have you been wondering how the bathroom’s doing? Afraid to ask? It’s true that we hoped that we’d be done by now, … [Read more…]
