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  • I need a weekend from my weekend.

    I have never been this exhausted on a Monday morning before ever in my life. Except the Monday after giving birth to Theo, when we were still in the hospital, and I hadn't slept more than two hours in a hour since the T…

  • Books in Review

    I don't know whether it is more a mark of the excellence of his mind or the poverty of mine, but in taking notes on Wendell Berry's What Are People For?, I find that I am doing less notetaking than simple retyping.At eve…

  • It's a good thing they picked "J" . . .

    . . . because I don't think there are eighteen names that begin with the letter Q.Happy Mother's Day to Michelle Duggar.

  • Middle of the Night Wakings

    Theo has almost stopped waking up in the middle of the night.He has "slept through" the night for awhile now, in the sense that we no longer have to get up to feed him. And he never really wakes up and bawls for us.But …

  • "I didn't realize how much you loved babies!"Uh . . . are you talking about me?A colleague of mine made that comment after hearing me gush, ever so slightly, about my youngest son. I corrected her misperception--"As a c…

  • Food for thought . . .

    Stephen and I are finish-your-plate kind of parents.(There. I've outed us. Some of you used to think we were good parents, didn't you?)We're reasonable about what we actually put on the plate--we don't make firey-hot c…

  • Put Down Your Coffee.

    Go to the bathroom if you need to.Close your office door.Have your inhaler nearby, if hysterical laughter sets off your asthma.Take your cough medicine now, if you have a cold.Hold onto your c-sect incision with a pillow…

  • Testing Anxiety?

    Isaac is taking his (state-mandated) annual standardized tests this week.(As an aside, I don't know why our fair state mandates annual standardized testing for homeschoolers, while traditional schoolers only need to test…

  • Back in Paris, Isaac had a schoolmate named Maya.I've been thinking about her a lot lately.I adored Maya from the second I first clapped eyes on her. I thought she was the coolest girl in the school.All the other girls …

  • I'm getting very daring in my old age.I just told my neighbor's son to get out of my tree. While the neighbor was watching.I was very Methodist about it--I called him "sweetie" and told him it was because the branch was…

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