8/24/2015 funny how life just keeps avalanching and knocking down trees in its path until the whole mountaintop rolls off the cliff. ES Reverie, won five honorable mentions for his participation in the Scholstic Art competition, yesterday. His reaction to it was closer to the polar opposite of what I expected, but what else is…
January 31, 2018-February 2, 2018 Update
I am exhausted. We have had the flu and some upper respiratory infections an ear infection and I am so tired of the hacking pressure with a shaky unstable head. Though, I do enjoy the sleep of the convalescing. four to five hours of dreamless sleep waking up in the silent house 9:30pm all is…
Morning teen 6:30-8:30am
"Stop touching me! Don't touch my hair! I'm not getting up, you took my blanket! Stop spraying me! I still have time! If you leave the room, I'll get up. I'm not getting up until you turn the light off. You can't make me take it. Come on Mommy! We have to leave. I'm going…
Is parenting teenagers some form of penance for having impure thoughts?
Is parenting teenagers some form of penance for having impure thoughts? Yes, I read the World According to Garp in Middle School and had impure thoughts. Consequently, I was sentenced to life with teenage boys, thrice. (Yeah, I know I have four kids, but I'm feeling pretty optimistic about my three year old girl's teenage…
I take the good with the bad
I took a break from writing and the world fell in. Not really. All of us had some flu, then a virus, one case of upper respiratory infection and now I have head cold, 'cause life just wouldn't be fair without a winter cold. Girlie is happy and speaking more I walked into her room…
Loosening Up Exercise — The Sandbox Writing Challenge Part 3
https://promptlings.wordpress.com/2016/02/22/loosening-up-exercise-the-sandbox-writing-challenge-part-3/ Now on to the loosening up exercises. List 1: What words would you use to describe your spouse, partner, or best friend? eager, helpful, playful, shy, enthusiastic, List 2: What words would you use to describe your enemies those with whom you have a personality clash? narcissistic, manipulative, oppositional, petty, vindictive List 3: What…
Book Reviews
I have been reading during my hibernation this winter. This is the first chance I've had to hunker down and lose myself in new worlds since I'm up at the pre-crack of dawn (2-4am) every blessed day. I could be up doing laundry or cleaning my bedroom, but as I have said before this is…
Clean the yard/Save the Greenhouse (It’s White)
I wrote this Sunday edited it Monday between naps. Yesterday was a forced march clean up the yard afternoon that I imposed on my men/boys How long does it take to complete a chore really? Two piles of leaves have been sitting in my driveway for over a month and I want them gone today.…
Duck, where?
Find a duck, frozen like a brick, thaw overnight, remove gibblets for later use add red potatoes, bake like a chicken, pheasant, cornish hen or other bird, insert orange, onion or other vegetable, fruit in vacated cavity, look for bird ties use shish ka bob skewers instead to hold the bird shut steam broccoli, over…
Math
After an unpleasant parent pick up from a not too pleasant ex and new girlfriend due to My Child being put in the middle and acting like a brat in the parking lot. I would like to ask you for help. Math help. Cross your fingers and lets do some algebra together. Not really algebra…
Amanuensis Sobriquet-Reverie 