Posted in Friends & Family, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Projects on Nov 7th, 2009 No Comments »
Today I am thankful for birthday parties, which is a good thing because they can be a snootful of work. Sometimes when we’re gearing up for a party I start wishing it was just over. I keep thinking that there’s just too much work and there’ll be too many people and I just don’t feel [...]
Posted in Around Town, Books, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Nov 6th, 2009 No Comments »
The library had a book sale and I went and spent five bucks and got lots of books. So today I’m also thankful for book sales and the libraries that put them on.
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Nov 6th, 2009 No Comments »
Today I am thankful for leftover oatmeal. Not just because it makes breakfast the next day so much simpler, but because it gives me a reason to feel creative and thrifty.
So today I opened up two containers of oatmeal that were the leftovers from two different days. I put them in a pot and added [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Nov 5th, 2009 1 Comment »
Last night I was super tired. Wednesday Night Dinner can be a lot of work and often when it’s over I’ll be dead-tired and really wound up. Sometimes, like last night, my legs will be aching and my body will just be worn out, but I’ll be too wound up to go to sleep. It [...]
Posted in For Amusement Purposes Only, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Nov 4th, 2009 No Comments »
Today I am thankful for bananas. Those crazy yellow fruits are so versatile and yummy. You can cut them up into cereal for a breakfast treat; you can smother them in peanut butter for a snack; you can mush them up to feed to the baby and, of course, you can throw them at each [...]
Posted in Around Town, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Nov 3rd, 2009 No Comments »
Oh my! It’s the third of November and I haven’t started my traditional Thanksgiving lead-up thanksgiving. As always I must remind you all that this was my sister’s fabulous idea. If I don’t she’ll call me up and yell at me.
Today I am thankful for errands. For an excuse to be outside in the [...]
Posted in All About Words, Gabrielle, Poems and Stories, Rants & Rambles on Nov 2nd, 2009 1 Comment »
(There is a good chance that this will come out completely wrong and will somehow sound like heresy. I mean no disrespect and certainly no heresy so just bear with me.)
I recently wrote my very first short story. According to standards I read on the Internet (insert snarky Internet comment here) what I’ve written previously [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, I learned something new today, Life, Children and Dishes on Nov 2nd, 2009 2 Comments »
I would have liked this to have been more pulled together, but if I don’t get it up here I will lose track of it forever. That would be a horrible waste of a good idea so I’m just going to post what I have so far. It is in no particular order.
I have three [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, I learned something new today, Life, Children and Dishes, Rants & Rambles on Oct 29th, 2009 3 Comments »
I’ve been listening to lies this week. I listened even though I knew they were lies. And then I kept being surprised when I felt upset about it.
So, Tuesday I went out shopping. It’s my official errand day where I run around like a crazy person doing grocery shopping for myself and some for Crystal. [...]
Posted in Books, Gabrielle, Rants & Rambles, Thoughts About Beauty, Thoughts About Heaven on Oct 19th, 2009 7 Comments »
It’s always a frightening thing to reread a book you haven’t read for a while. We change so much sometimes in just a few years that a book that was once the beginning and end of catharsis for our emotional state is just whiny and dumb. The character who’d once stood on the pedestal of [...]