Posted in Dinner at Lansberry's, Friends & Family, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Apr 27th, 2006 2 Comments »
 My dad, the HHG (High Holy Guy), is in town visiting us and tonight he came to dinner at the Lansberrys. Since he is an honored guest at their house I helped Theresa and Raquel clean before dinner and did not break any brooms. The children minus Moriah, Noah and Justice ate outside and [...]
Posted in For Amusement Purposes Only, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Not Much of Anything on Apr 27th, 2006 1 Comment »
 As I type this I am sitting at the computer with half a clove of garlic in each ear.
 I esplain.
 Every time I get a bad head cold it turns into an ear infection. Sometimes it turns into two just so I won’t feel off balance. Last time this happened Raquel was [...]
Posted in Life, Children and Dishes, Raquel on Apr 26th, 2006 No Comments »
Yesterday I pulled onto our street and had a vague feeling if surrealism. Had I pulled onto the right street? I must have–I distinctly remembered seeing the sign. So why couldn’t I see our house?
After a few seconds of feeling utterly ridiculous for not being able to recognize the street or my [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Apr 26th, 2006 3 Comments »
 I like Blogpeoria. I like it a lot. It is easy to use, I think the dashboard blue is pretty and the administrator is a nice man. But, alas, it doesn’t have word verification. Word verification is when you have to type the letters you see in order to leave a comment. Of course [...]
Posted in I learned something new today, Life, Children and Dishes, Rants & Rambles, Raquel on Apr 25th, 2006 No Comments »
I just wrote the closest thing to a nasty business letter I’ve ever written. It was politely worded (with a please and a thank you, even) but it was forceful enough that it makes me a little nervous.
It all started when I decided it was time to finally spend the Christmas money I’ve [...]
Posted in For Amusement Purposes Only, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Not Much of Anything on Apr 24th, 2006 No Comments »
 So Crystal was working on a project. She needed to spray paint it and so she needed to paint it outside. The only problem was it was nighttime and there is no light on the back porch. So Crystal was wandering around trying to find the flashlight. Then she gave up and tried to find [...]
Posted in Life, Children and Dishes, Raquel on Apr 24th, 2006 No Comments »
 Look, it’s a blog post. This is where I finally tell you all the marvelous happenings that have kept me too busy to post. Let’s see, did we actually have any marvelous happenings?
 I got the kitchen floor mopped again and it only took me one afternoon this time, which is something of a marvel [...]
Posted in Friends & Family, Life, Children and Dishes, Raquel on Apr 21st, 2006 No Comments »
 I finally went back to the old blog to retrieve the last of our belongings, i.e. drafts we never published. I found this one from October of last year. For some reason I didn’t want to post it at the time, but I was afraid if I deleted the draft I would lose all these [...]
Posted in All About Words, Books, Gabrielle, Rants & Rambles on Apr 20th, 2006 1 Comment »
One of my all time favorite authors is aman by the name of Lloyd Alexander. He wrote a series that is up on the list of books I grew up with and regard as staples in any literary diet. I read everything I could find that Lloyd Alexander had written except for a book called [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Apr 19th, 2006 No Comments »
My favorite things from this morning:
My first glimpse of Samuel this morning in Isaac’s clothes that are all too big for him.
Dancing in the kitchen with Noah.
Arianna curled up on my bed reading some of my new books.
The trusting look on Justice’s face as his brothers wreak havoc not two feet from him.