I’ve spent each morning this week getting up wee early and trying to look like something that didn’t just crawl out of bed before I get to school. Are they just making light bulbs less bright, because it surely can’t be that I’m getting older. I’ve begun to make note of who I talk to and …
Disclaimer: My teenager pointed out that I had inadvertently spelled perimeters as parameters and that, her being all techno saavy, said that while I could change it in the body of the post, the title could not be easily changed and therefore I must look like an idiot in the title so….I know what I …
One bag at a time. That’s how. I absolutely could not fall asleep last night, so, after 380 bags of popcorn bagging , a special treat for all the students from my daughters’ school at lunchtime, I got flat out loopy and started singing Taylor Swift songs to myself. I refrained from dancing. But I …
Just got home. See these smiles? They’re tired but they’re honest. I stood in the school store tonight and laughed through tears that I had to keep pushing down to their chamber until I could let them out later. My new friends will have to get used to me crying because I’m happy. Until then, …
I sat outside tonight at my daughters’ school. Those words sound like talkin nonsense in my head when I think them. She was at a new student function, sinking her roots in with never-before-known peers. While I waited I got hungry so I took a drive to forage for food and ate it greedy while …
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