Right before the holidays The Narrator and I ate at a Brazilian steak house for his company Christmas party. The restaurant had continuous table service. When you wanted to continue eating meat you turned your little round card to green. When you needed a break, you turned the card to red. All night long the […]
Story Girl
Things that go bump in the night
It was 10:30 p.m., and I was sitting at my sewing machine wrapping up the night’s work on the wedding dress. The kids were in bed. The Narrator was out of town for the night for work. Just as I was finishing a seam, I heard a really loud bump. I mean a REALLY LOUD […]
The Kitchen Symphony
There are moments in my career as wife/mama/home manager/housekeeper where everything comes together, and when everything and everyone behaves as it should. It’s almost as if I get a teeny, tiny glimpse of what life might have been like without an Original Sin (except that the butter and sugar are still bad for me). It’s […]
Hucka-BBQ
This morning we packed the kids up for a short drive and went to a Pig Festival. Yes, you read that right, and no I’d never been to one before either! I’m not quite sure why it was called a pig festival. There weren’t any pigs there, unless you count the people running around eating […]
All about me
Happy birthday to ME! The kids woke up at 6:20 just to tell me how much they love me. And that he needed a diaper change. And that she was hungry. Somehow, I managed to convince them that if they were going to wake me up that early they needed to give me my birthday […]
Lessons from the playground
It was a gorgeous day sunny day here today, so the kids and I took advantage of the sun and met up with friends at the playground down the street. I’ve noticed lately that I’m friendlier and more conversational with other adults when my kids aren’t around. In fact, when I spent the weekend alone […]