A week in the Life: Wednesday (on Friday)

In the morning, first thing, snow coated the ground like sugar. Then it melted, and a soft rain started to fal, rinsing the remaining orange and yellow leaves; making them fall in wet heaps to the dark ground. Every day hinges around these simple things: dishes stacked in the cupboard, food prepared, then put away. [...]

A Week In The Life:: Monday

Morning blur. All of the pictures I took today have this blurry quality. Such an apt reflection of my Monday. Here, Bean giggles in the covers as I get dressed. He’s such a big kid now–sleeping every night, all through the night, in his OWN bed. I still am marveling at this. It’s such a [...]

A Week In The Life:: Sunday

Drying my hair. Hating maternity clothes as much as I did last time. This is not a good start to the morning. Breakfast = best part of the day. DH made biscuits (he makes the best.) Yummy lemon curd to go with flakey, dreamy biscuits. Then an insurmountable list of everything to do. I dropped [...]

A Week In The Life:: Saturday

Morning light. Shower. Unmade bed. Drying my hair. Breakfast = broiled grapefruits w/brown sugar; croissants, soft boiled eggs; lattes. Empty table. Letting the geese out. On the walk… Inevitably the geese join us. Bean always bikes–in his bright yellow helmet with thunderbolts. The frost has turned to dew. Back inside, doing laundry I notice my [...]

And then there are days that are perfect crap.

Like today. When all I feel like doing is crying for no reason. When I come home from work and feel like I can’t give anything more to anyone but I have to, because DH has guitar lessons and it’s the mama show for bedtime routine and dinner tonight. It rained all day. Maybe that [...]