six and a half weeks

Here’s a painting I did a few years ago. It feels fitting since today is foggy but Spring-like. Tomorrow will rain. But winter is certainly falling more behind us that in front of us.
Six and a half weeks.
That’s how much longer until we can get on with it.
I mean really.
J’s traveling for the last 6 [...]

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Scraps of paper, scraps of life

I find scraps of paper that Red writes and leaves lying around the house and started keeping them. Some in particular are favorites. As well as things that come out of their mouths, randomly. I love how their minds work. You know? So here are some things:
Journal of Red January 21, 2009
“Once there was a [...]

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I’ve been Nightstand Tagged

I was nightstand tagged (by A Witches Way) a while back and only just realized it when I was getting to some blog reading. My excuse is that I was naked on an island for a week at the time I was tagged. And then spent the last week getting caught up with things with [...]

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Sicker than sick

I’ve been so sick this week with the flu. I thought it was just a mild cold at first and then BAM.
I’ve been messed up.
Caring for my girls’ everyday needs while I can barely move, breathe, eat, sleep….barely take care of myself, let alone them, has been a challenge. 
Somehow, though, my girls seem to know [...]

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You just MacGuyvered that one

We have a saying “I’ll McGuyver that for you” or “I just McGuyvered this” and my favorite, “Honey, do you think you could McGuyver this for me?”
Down to the littlest things now, be it sealing up a slider in the Carribbean so the mosquitos don’t come in, to protect from the (FEVER NAME) and to [...]

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Innocence?

 
“Mommy, does it feel hot in here?”
“No, Blue, it doesn’t.”
“Oh. Okay Mommy.”
An hour later, the girls are asleep and although I am sick with yet another horridly annoying and uncomfortable cold and my temperature is all messed up, the house feels INCREDIBLY warm to me.
I check the thermostat and see that SOMEONE had turned it [...]

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Photo-log

Just ’cause I am lazy (and flat out with writing copy for a client’s website) today, I thought I would post some random photos.
Red and I taking photo of ourselves in the bathroom mirror one evening.
A few minutes later, my mom delivered a bag of home made cookies
Red made me three sandwiches one morning recently [...]

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Saying Goodbye Again

I was shopping at Trader Joe’s when he called from Logan. He’d gone through security already and was in search for a Starbucks.
We stayed in a hotel near the airport last night, after dropping the girls at their dad’s near Boston anyway, we got a sweet deal on a nice hotel with a not-so-warm whirlpool [...]

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Watching Movies

Leave it to J, he can always find a rerun of “Good Will Hunting” on television. Seriously. No matter the day or time.
We love movies. I always have, and coming together with J, we watch alot of them, especially independent quirky films. We’ve seen a great many, a most recent rental was “Bottle Shock”, about [...]

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20 comforting things

1. Blue singing to herself in the back seat of the car while Red reads “The Boxcar Children”.
2. Photos. Photos of the kids. Photos of good places I’ve been. Photos of my artwork. Photos of my family. Photos of J.
3. The ringing of Skype on my computer in the mornings.
4. Paying off the credit card.
5. [...]

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