So this morning was … challenging. We had to be at the car place around 10 for them to replace the handle on our minivan’s rear sliding door which broke in my hand a week ago (the automatic sliding feature died years go and is too expensive to fix so we tug on the...
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The Summer of Boredom
Defining Terms Just before the end of school, I declared that this would be a Summer of Boredom. The criteria for what-this-means was not complex. Basically, I had two “rules.” Monday, Wednesday, and Friday are no-screen days. I am not your activity director. We absolutely had to address the screen addiction we have going on...
Good and Hard and Good
Eric’s grandpa passed away on Friday. He’d been in congestive heart failure for a year, so it was not unexpected. But we didn’t expect it last Friday. That was hard. Calling hours were Monday. I really hate calling hours. They feel so … heavy. You are there, all sad, and other people come with...
5 Things I Learned This Spring
A short list of things I’ve learned this spring…in random order. 1. Strawberries “breed like rabbits.” We put in 50 free strawberry plants in May of 2015. This year, we harvested around 20 gallons of strawberries. For most of two weeks, I picked almost every single day. It was insane. And yummy. And I...
The Dead Groundhog
So. This morning, my dumb dogs deposited a dead groundhog in my garage sometime between Eric’s departure and our frantic get-in-the-van-or-we-will-miss-the-bus hoopla. I saw them wandering around the back yard with Pip, my BIL’s dog, about 6:30 a.m., and figure they had dropped off the dead thing IN my garage, you know, for safe-keeping,...