Posted in All About Words, For Amusement Purposes Only, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Not Much of Anything on Apr 27th, 2009 2 Comments »
I was very excited earlier today. My sister had sent me a picture that sparked a story thought in my head. I got the first few sentences and had a beginning so I quickly sat down and started typing it out. Yes, yes, I thought, And where does it go from there? Ah, I answered [...]
Posted in For Amusement Purposes Only, Life, Children and Dishes, Not Much of Anything, Raquel on Apr 13th, 2009 No Comments »
Then: I couldn’t find my shoe, because I put it someplace weird instead of putting it away.
Now: I couldn’t find my shoe, because after I put it away the toddler took it and put it someplace weird.
Posted in For Amusement Purposes Only, Life, Children and Dishes, Not Much of Anything, Raquel on Apr 9th, 2009 5 Comments »
I have limited storage space in my room. It wouldn’t be so bad if I weren’t a bookaholic, but with books filling most of the normal storage areas of the room, I have to be creative about squeezing in other stuff.
I just found an improved way to store my purses. Now, you might [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Not Much of Anything on Apr 6th, 2009 5 Comments »
I’m feeling really low right now. It is April 6 and it snowed last night. Really, we were supposed to be past this. The snow all went away and the sun came out and made the air turn warm. I planted spinach and sunflowers and prepped some old tires to plant lettuce in. Cherry blossoms [...]
Posted in For Amusement Purposes Only, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Not Much of Anything on Mar 25th, 2009 3 Comments »
There are several blogs I follow and periodically there will be a post where the author is simply geeking out about some hobby or other. Often times those posts are only intelligible if you know something about the hobby and only interesting, well, if you’re interested. So now I guess it’s my turn. I just [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Not Much of Anything on Feb 4th, 2009 1 Comment »
There is something refreshing and heartening about rearranging furniture. The focus of the room shifts as it various parts are moved around. Dirt that went long unseen, but always felt is cleaned up and the room has more space to breathe. The sun shines into the room in unfamiliar ways and you find yourself seeing [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Not Much of Anything on Jan 8th, 2009 2 Comments »
I had a really odd dream this morning. It started off as if it were a normal day in our house except we weren’t in our house. I mean, it was our home, but it wasn’t the house we actually live in. I went to talk to Seth and Crystal about all of us going [...]
Posted in For Amusement Purposes Only, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Not Much of Anything on Jan 7th, 2009 1 Comment »
It appears that today is the semi-official, semi-annual (or at least whenever I can get to it) “Gabrielle Moving Furniture and Sweeping Behind It” day. I had a slight inkling that today would be the day when I got up this morning. The day seemed full of purpose. I came very close to leaping out [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Not Much of Anything on Dec 20th, 2008 1 Comment »
It’s been busy around here. Not only are there the normal Christmas preparations going on, but this year food has been extra expensive so there’s been more fiddly work to do. We’ve made our own korv for a couple of years, but this year we ground up all the meat before making the sausage. Dried [...]
Posted in For Amusement Purposes Only, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Not Much of Anything on Dec 4th, 2008 2 Comments »
I recently started a food and exercise plan to try to get disciplined and healthier. On of the downsides of this is that whole discipline and exercise thing. One of the upshots is broccoli.
To make life simpler I’m buying my own food so I can have what I need to eat around the house. I [...]