William with his cousins; Jill is hanging from the swingset’s monkey bar.

Everett and Emma Grace at the picnic with cousins Jill and Elisabeth

The children and I walked down to the beach on Tuesday evening. It had been grey, grey, grey since we arrived, and this made the water look grey. The air had been still. It was cooler, too. Cooler than usual, cooler than North Carolina, which isn’t hard to do. It didn’t look like beach weather, […]

Well, it’s been a Bad Blog Week, that’s for certain. I’ve hardly been here at all, to my dismay. I remember distinctly having this very page open for Some Time earlier in the week, but nothing came of it. It’s been a bad e-mail week, too. I just haven’t written to people; my inbox is […]

I met with my book club tonight. Actually, I have two book clubs, which is obscene, really, because Who Has The Time? But that’s another posting. Tonight I met with Vlaardinger Boeks (and yes, ladies, I added the extra “a,” because that makes it even more funny), the book club I have been part of […]

The dictionary is a dangerous thing, and I’ll tell you why. Because I am Very Tired tonight, and I planned to just write a quick little blog entry and then go to bed. I need to write the entry because I’ve received something like a Complaint, and so must needs do something about it now, […]

is your Tae-Bo workout when your foot is still basically broken. Even if it’s just twenty minutes of your Tae-Bo workout, or maybe only fifteen. Even if you’re feeling really, really good, and woke up early by accident, and so Have Time. Because you haven’t done your Tae-Bo workout in at least eleven weeks, maybe […]

I was cleaning the downstairs bathroom just now, and discovered as I did so that I had to clean the toothpaste tube. This is not a task that I need to perform in our bathroom, upstairs, because we don’t mess with our toothpaste tube. But the boys do, apparently. It was smeared with blue, sweet-smelling […]

Last week while I was deprived of access to this blog, I was chafing to write a post about my dear, adorable husband. He is a wonderful man, you know, and also very funny. He is funny when he means to be funny, but he is also sometimes funny when he doesn’t mean to be, […]