For six months my calendar is pure white and I practically die from ennui. Then six months worth of activities are pushed into six days. Good times, good times. Today A and I are attending the InHome Conference. My first …
It is unseasonably warm in Chicago this week. I almost wrote “unreasonably” warm, but when it’s 80 in mid-March, you do not look a gift horse in the mouth! You fall to your knees in gratitude, blow kisses at the sun, …
It is a holiday here in the House of Chaos. And if you’re a geek or raising geeklings, you know what it is. Pi day. The day we celebrate all things 3.14159etc. That’s as far as my memory can reliably …
It’s great to learn ‘Cause knowledge is power! If you’re a child of the early ‘80s, you’re familiar with that cute little ditty. Oh, Schoolhouse Rock, how I love thee. I can count by threes, recite the Preamble, and I …
Have ya heard? Today Mercury is in retrograde! (Interpretation: things are gonna be screwy for the next three weeks. You’ve been warned.) I never put much stock in the whole Mercury is in retrograde the world is going to ennnnnd!!! thing…until …
I should have known better. Classic rookie mom mistake. Shoulda just kept my mouth shut. See, A is going to Boy Scout camp this summer for the first time. Overnight camp. For a week. No parents. He has never gone …
Chicago did not have winter. There. I said it. Two annoy-the-hell-outta-me snowfalls is NOT a Chicago winter. Five months of dear sweet God have mercy please make the subzero temperatures end! is a Chicago winter. While it’s not yet spring …
It’s the Week of Doubts, here in the House of Chaos. I doubt I can homeschool, I doubt I’m going to ever bring in anything resembling a paycheck, I doubt my sanity. Over at An Intense Life today, I have …
I learned late this evening that there was a full moon up there smirking at the world, and a whole lotta things came into focus. I really should have some sort of Full Moon Klaxon Horn of Doom on my phone …
When you’ve made big changes in your life, did you ever stop to think why? What finally tipped it from status quo to change? What did it? Something you heard, a belief challenged, heated words sent your way in anger? …
