Ten Things Tuesday, the headache edition

1. I canceled my class today because I have something nasty brewing.  I have a headache that directs me to be still, as moving my head or neck is stupidly painful. Why am I blogging?
2. I still have to grade papers, even if I have to be careful as to how I move my neck. [...]

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“If it’s called a fast, why does it go so slowly?”

Tap, tap, tap… is this thing working??
About 4 days ago, I had a whole post nearly ready to go. Written in one fierce burst of creativity, it was up on my screen while I got up to get some tea… and then the power went off.  All that remained of my sparkling wit and loquaciousness [...]

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Planning the next Bat Mitzvah

Oy.
In September of next year, Monkeyface will be 13 and will become Bat Mitzvah. Plans have been brewing pretty much since the last movie, but you know when best laid plans go awry? Back to the drawing board.
I grew up attending a Conservative congregation, and I was Bat Mitzvahed with a (very nice, nasal,  and [...]

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One of THOSE parenting moments

I was in my daughters’ room to kiss them goodnight when Boo made a perfectly excellent statement.
“Mom, I stole chocolate out of your desk drawer tonight, and it’s absolutely disgusting! How can you eat that stuff?”
I couldn’t help it. I laughed my ass off.
“Um, which part of that statement shall I address first, Boo?”
“Yeah, I [...]

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Momma bird flies North

My chicks are coming home to the nest, and I am heading up to Canada in, oh 5 minutes, to pick them up.
I’m gonna fly r e a l low.
The bus won’t actually pull into the IGA parking lot until Sunday late afternoon, so the plan is to keep extremely preoccupied until then so I [...]

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Tetchy Things Tuesday – Missing Pieces

It happens about this point every summer. Five weeks past the time my daughters go off to their summer home, camp, I start to dream I’ve abandoned them. Two very early mornings ago, I dreamed I left much younger versions of my kids in supermarket in England and then, in a frenzied adrenalized state, fruitlessly [...]

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Dating for 17 years

Seventeen years ago, Bob and I went out for Chinese food, came back to my parents’ house, watched the closing ceremonies of the summer olympics, and made out on the couch.
That was it. We were together.
It’s been a helluva ride.
In our time together, not necessarily in order or comprehensive, we got married in front of [...]

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Brief and lovely family reunion

After a long drive from Ottawa yesterday, we’re home.  Seeing the kids was incredible and I’m happy to report that despite the constantly psychotic sunny/rainy/windy/cloudy weather extravaganza they are also experiencing 9 hours away, they have been having a great summer. And, they’ve grown in the three weeks it had been since they’d stood next [...]

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Going North to see my babies

Nope, they’re not babies, but I need to squish them. Nibble a little. Get regaled with camp stories, eye rolls, pleas for protein that is NOT chicken, and other good food. Let them shower in actual consistently hot water and sleep in a real bed with no mosquito netting.
We spoke to the girls last night [...]

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Talking with my father

Yesterday, I phoned my mum and dad and my dad answered and immediately asked me if I wanted to speak with my mother.
Over the years, he has consistently done this, and frankly, it has always pissed me off. What, you can’t speak with me? Have something better to do?
In retaliation to this and other dismissive [...]

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