The equation: Add more sunrises to my life. Subtract some clutter.The result: More beauty and therefore more quiet smiles. A garage sale pile that has doubled in size. Bookshelves and closets with lovely patches of empty space in them. A small increase in peace. A small decrease in anxiety. A slightly happier mommy. Slightly happier children.
The word slightly is the key. We’re not looking at huge, life altering stuff here. There’s no need for before and after pictures or a[...]
Archive for January, 2008
If I think much more about yesterday, I’ll cry.
Again.
So I’m going to focus on Saturday for awhile. Saturday? Was about as lovely as a Saturday can be. It was spent preparing for Becca’s very low key birthday shindig. Now, in order for you to properly appreciate the wonderfulness that was me on this day, you need to be acquainted with what is my normal attitude during the approach of such an event.
i.e. blind panic.
Not this time though. I didn’t[...]
Last night, I closed the cover of this book (The Hound of Rowan), let out a satisfied sigh, and squirmed with delight. Neil was tip-tapping away on his laptop, and let out a sigh of his own. He knew what my sigh meant. It meant I was about to talk his ear off. Fortunately for him I knew what his sigh meant, so I merely grinned and wandered away, keeping the deliciousness of my recent experience to myself.
Well, mostly to[...]
Once upon a time there was a girl. A pretty dull, average, ordinary girl. The kind that could easily blend into a crowd. Heck, there was even something almost Clark Kent-esque about her. She was almost too normal.
If you imagined her to be the sort to lead a secret double life you’d actually be right.
This girl? Had an incredibly amazing superpower the likes of which has never been seen by man or beast[...]
So I’m very much in writing mode at the moment. I’m struggling with rewrites and getting dizzy from doing loop-de-loops on this massive learning curve I’ve been swept up by. I’ve been trying various techniques to get into the right headspace. Music and meditation. Staring at the computer screen and hoping something good will happen. Hitting said computer screen repeatedly with my head. And reading good books.
I have an enormous stack of books on[...]
There ought to have been a warning label. Something along the lines of: Reading this series may have seriously detrimental effects on your social life, physical well being, and mental stability. The fabulousness contained within may fascinate the reader to such a degree that they will read the entirety of the trilogy in less than two days whilst their life slowly crumbles around them. Only when the reader emerges from the blissful fog of literary captivation will[...]
I’m about ready to scream. Except that the most recent event in a long string of miserable making events is logging into my blogger dashboard to find out that blogger is going to shut me out in about fifteen minutes.
Lovely.
Firstly, the drive to the conference was hugely stressful. Blowing snow that made it so we couldn’t see where the lines on the road were.So Neil was late.Then I got lost trying to find the church.Then I got miserable during the[...]
Last night, the phone range.
Me: Hello?Automated Voice: I’m sorry. That is an invalid response.
Don’t you love those moments when you realize that yes, you do possess above average intelligence?
I had the weirdest dream last night. Now, I know that’s a standard thing to say when sharing a weird dream, but I mean it quite sincerely. I have never had so weird a dream before in all my life.
I dreamed I was back in high school, and that our school had[...]
Wondering what I’ve been up to today? I was wondering the same thing as I stared in dismay at the cataclysmic mess which is my house. To distract myself from the horror, I decided to share a picture of my first attempt at making wee little icing flowers.
Becca is turning two this weekend, and I decided to take things up a notch in the birthday cake department. I’ve gone from cake iced in the pan, to cake out of the[...]
I decided I could use a few laughs this evening. Here are a few of my favourites.
1) Little Jacob had a hard time getting use to a new baby in the house. Coming out of his bedroom talking rather loud and being told to be quiet, the baby is asleep, he very seriously said, “Well ya’ll better be quiet, cause my foot`s asleep.”
2) One summer evening during a violent thunderstorm a mother was tucking her small boy into bed. She[...]
