Today’s guest post is from woman-extraordinaire Cheryl Conway-Nelson. I am not sure how to spell ‘extraordinaire’, and when I looked it up in the dictionary, it was not there: it should be, sandwiched between extracurricular and extrasensory. Her picture would be in there too, next to the definition, for balancing five kids, volunteerism, community causes, [...]
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guest blogger: Cheryl Conway-Nelson
Posted in Motherhood, tagged Cheryl Conway-Nelson, guest blog, snow on January 27, 2010 | 8 Comments »
almost dark
Posted in Motherhood, seasons, tagged darkness, sledding, snow, snow days, sunset, winter on January 26, 2010 | 12 Comments »
Late one afternoon, two boys came bounding off the school bus, ready to head to the sledding hill. The snow was perfect, and they wanted to take in every minute of daylight. Contrary to the number of “snow days” we have here, there is not that much snow; between the icy-snow, the too-wet-slushy-snow, and the [...]
snow globe
Posted in Motherhood, seasons, tagged snow days, snowglobe on January 8, 2010 | 15 Comments »
It is snowing. Big, lumpy clumps of snow flakes, the kind that makes it look like the neighborhood was a giant snowglobe tipped upside down at some point last night, then set back down very gently this morning right before the alarm went off. It is beautiful. Sure wish I could find the connector cord [...]
10 days, and the honeymoon? Already?
Posted in Motherhood, Writing, tagged NaNoWriMo, Writing on November 10, 2009 | 11 Comments »
It is Day 10 of my great writing escapade, and I have this news flash to report: NaNoWriMo Honeymoon. So. Over. I look back at my bright-and-shiny post from a week ago (Really? Has it been a whole week? What have I been doing?) Oh, I remember, yesterday I pruned a bonsai instead of writing. [...]
let’s put the fun back in dysfunctional!
Posted in Motherhood, something important, I'm sure, tagged chores, karmatube.org, parenting magazines, Rube Goldberg, TheFunTheory.com on October 30, 2009 | 8 Comments »
It’s Friday, and time to have a little fun. I found this video on the website karmatube.org. It demonstrates a nifty concept from TheFunTheory.com, where they experiment to see if adding fun to mundane tasks can change people’s behavior for the better. Have a look: That made me smile, because it worked. I tested a [...]
solving a happy problem
Posted in get along like cats and dogs, Motherhood, Writing, tagged BabyBjorn, kittens, NaNoWriMo, Writing on October 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I have what I might consider the happiest problem I could dream up. One of the new kittens, Mia, is very supportive of my writing. In fact, nearly every time I sit down at the keyboard to write, she jumps up to my lap and tries to reward my writing efforts by purring hysterically from [...]
So sweet, it’s (almost) spooky
Posted in Foodies, Motherhood, tagged gingerbread house, Halloween on October 21, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I’m not a huge Halloween fan. Lots of people around here decOraTe for Halloween, indoors and out, with extravagance beyond what I do for Christmas. I just can’t want to do that. I also don’t like spooky stuff, which puts a damper on the pranks, which I don’t like either. And, I don’t like scary [...]
squids and kids and life’s small miracles
Posted in Foodies, Motherhood on October 20, 2009 | 8 Comments »
My kid ate squid. While on vacation, we broke the long-standing, elusive Picky Eater Taste Barrier and the list of new-things-tried grew by the day. I cannot tell you how happy this made me, the Frustrated Foodie who for many years could not cook interesting dishes or dine out at adventurous restaurants with her whole [...]
a tale of two kitties
Posted in get along like cats and dogs, Motherhood, tagged A Tale of Two Cities, Brett Favre, Charles Dickens, humane society, Jane Koenen Bretl, kittens on October 7, 2009 | 14 Comments »
How does the story go? It was the best of times, it was the worst of times? At risk of Dickensian metaphorical hyperbole, the last couple weeks have had some ups and downs. There was the loss of a beloved pet, but the adoption of two new ones. There were the three trips to the [...]
goodbye kitty
Posted in get along like cats and dogs, Motherhood, Writing, tagged cat, dog, Jane Koenen Bretl, pets on October 6, 2009 | 14 Comments »
The last two weeks, I’ve looked out the window what feels like 500 times, waiting and watching for the cat to come home. She went out at night, like she had 500 times before. Most every day, for six years, she went outside for a while then came back, a few hours or a maybe [...]
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