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Tag: family
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Warp Speed, Full Ahead
I wasn’t busy before. I thought I was, but I was mistaken. I was only playing at being busy. Here in less than a week I’ll have a kid in college, a kid homeschooled, and a kid in middle school. Also, the college kid isn’t driving, so guess who’s playing Driving Miss Ginja Ninja for…
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MoT
My baby turned thirteen yesterday. My Eldest will be 20 in January. Four children in a span of 6 1/2 years, is it any wonder I still can’t wrap my head around how big they have gotten? I spent half a lifetime, it seemed, with babies in diapers, or toddlers, but now they are taller…
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Overwhelmed with Blessings
There are times you need to sit down and count them up, because it’s been simply overwhelming here at the Nut House, and I’ve been more focused on navigating my way through – and making sure my family is as stable as my hands can make them in their passage as well. The power of…
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Something Nutty
The other day I was getting ready for work and hustling the kids out the door for school when I found a nut on my desk. Since it hadn’t been there only moments before, and my desk was actually clean (temporarily. That’s never a state that lasts long in my office) I knew that one…
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Mother Moth
I’ve written rather a lot over the years about biology and the human condition. We are driven by our endocrine system to some extent, we are shaped not only by nurture, but the nature of how our parents and grands and great-grands and so on lived – more and more we realize just how much…
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Vintage Kitchen: Blackberry Flummery
A while back, my mother-in-law, the remarkable woman who bore and raised my First Reader, gave me a precious gift. We had been talking about this series, where I’m cooking from old cookbooks, some of which were originally my great-grandmothers, grandmothers, and mom’s books. She got up and marched into her kitchen, pulled this book…
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Glurge and Human Emotion
I’m not sure of the true origin of the word glurge. I’m not even sure it’s a real word. I know that I first heard it used to describe the masses of emails that came with the early advent of the internet. Perhaps before the ‘net, it existed – I’m sure some did, since I…
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Arachnophilia
I was listening to the radio on the way into work this morning. Let me back up a little. Our morning starts with himself up early, and then I get up about six, and he usually asks me how I slept as the lights come on. This morning, I told him in response to that:…
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Love is… Motherhood
I am a mother, four times over, so I can speak to the ways that love forms my relationship with my children, and how I’ve parented over the years. I’m not a father, hence the title. Some of these things may resonate with fathers, but men are different than women (quelle suprise!) so fatherhood is,…
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Feed the Brain, Feed the Soul
When is a cookie not just a cookie? The First Reader asked me yesterday if I would make cookies for him. He had talked about this the other day, so it wasn’t like he was springing a Monday night surprise on me after a long day at work. And the weather was perfect for baking,…
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Life is Flux: Curmudgeon’s Corner
Written by Sanford Begley Life is flux. That is a truism we are all familiar with. No matter how perfect, or perfectly horrible, life is, it will change. Now that change is sometimes good,sometimes bad, it is always changing. I am looking at examples of that in my life right now,and pondering what it will…
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Dog Dynamics
My Mom is here for a short visit. She’s been driving across country, visiting family along the way, enroute from Oregon to (ultimately) New Hampshire. Last evening Mom, my sister Juniper… and two dogs showed up. All were welcome, but it’s been funny watching the dogs, her two and our (very spoiled) one. They met…