Ugh...I am too tired to be doing this. I tried to convince myself that
I didn't need to post, because I'm not going to do every day in May
anyway, but I need some kind of momentum on a dreary overcast day that
has just now turned rainy.



So. Cooking. I am cooking up a storm. Tonight, being the busy night,
was cheater food for supper, that being frozen tortellini, frozen peas,
frozen meatballs. But! We also had the amazing no-knead bread that
took very little work but did seem to requir… Continue

1. The voice that came on after 12 minutes of trying to get through to sign my girl up for preschool for next September: hooray!
   


2. The little voice, "Mommy! You haven't done your yoga yet!" So I did my yoga, but 12 minutes into my 20 minutes of DVD I started hearing two little voices: "Are you done yet? Are you done? Mommy, are you
   done yet?"


3. The voice that said, "Yeah, make

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Ha. (And, yes I am still going to space twice after a period,
regardless of the whatever of my font-a-ma-jiggy. So there.) I did
not listen to the little voice that said "you're tired, you don't need
to go to the gym, stay home and be slothlike." I did not listen to the
little voice, even as it got bigger. I waited until the kids went to
bed and DaddySutra had everything well under control and out I went.
Granted, I stopped at the bank and at costco, and I kind of took my
time, and I only walked… Continue

Well, that was unexpected. I was starting on my third month of daily posting, no misses, and we had an expected power outage last Monday afternoon. However, the power came back but we had no phone, no
internet. I suppose I could have gone somewhere and found a computer
to keep posting on, but I suddenly had a whole bunch of things to deal
with, including finding a phone to call the phone company (I could have
used my cell, but I am getting no great deal on minutes, and I refused
to pay my cel

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Fourteen years ago, around this month, I got a job as a live out nanny
(they referred to me as a nanny, but I think it was just because what
23 year old wants to work as a full time babysitter?). I was
responsible for four kids.



The interview was great, if by great you mean meeting the three oldest
kids while sitting on the picnic table on the deck, then riding the zip
line with the oldest kid, then falling off the zip line as the parents
came back to tell me they had decided to offe… Continue