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I’m pretty sure I’m going to be asked to leave any second now

Amy — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:04:32 +0000

Seeing as how I do not actually go to school here, and therefore have no right to use said library or nap chairs, I try to fit in when I come to the business school so I don't get kicked out. Here are a couple of reasons why I'm not fooling anyone. 1. Instead of a brief case or a Coach bag, I am carrying a backpack with my name on the front of it. It smells vaguely of cat pee.

Three French hens, two turtledoves, and a bunch of *%$@ in our Christmas tree

Amy — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 03:33:22 +0000

At first glance, this looks like a typical, dead-because-no-one-has-watered-it-since-Christmas-day, mid-January Christmas tree. But the youngest has been singing, “Decorating the tree, decorating the tree, Addison is the greatest at decorating the tree!” and prancing about with strange objects, so let us take a closer look.

In other… [keep reading]

Going to Agumano

Amy — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:08:00 +0000

This story is long overdue, but it was interrupted by Quandaries (making it indeed, the nature of Just Barely), and then by laundry, and then by dinner, and then by snotty noses…

I should have gone to check on them, but I needed to get their lunch ready and it was so… [keep reading]

Quandaries (The nature of Just Barely)

Amy — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:11:00 +0000

I’m sitting on my bed trying to write a story about the spawn’s latest absurdity (Going to Agumano), but the Just Barely the Oldest has other designs for my afternoon. The children are supposed to be napping. I know Just Barely the Youngest is (because I don’t hear her, and Addison does not know… [keep reading]

Breakfast in Bed

Amy — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:48:00 +0000

Ella is usually the first one up in the morning, and if I’m still getting dressed or drying my hair (or, fine, I admit it, sleeping) when I hear Addison wake up, I send Ella in to distract her sister and buy me some time. Occasionally I can hear Ella reading to Addison, but most… [keep reading]

Beautiful Bed

Amy — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:01:00 +0000

A couple of days ago Ella came in our room at what I deemed to be too early an hour in the morning. “Go get back in your bed,” I mumbled and turned over. When I heard the rustling of paper in our room a few minutes later I assumed she had brought in a… [keep reading]

Addie Proofing

Amy — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 15:11:00 +0000

Children love it when you childproof the house. They see it as a personal challenge–an opportunity to rise to the occasion. When we moved to this house Ella was old enough to know a skull and crossbones means “Don’t drink this–use it to clean Mommy’s windows for her because lord knows she’s not going to… [keep reading]

The Art of The Lurch

Amy — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 02:43:00 +0000

The Art of The Lurch

My baby has been making overtures toward crawling lately. Addison doesn’t zip around on all fours like the image that comes to mind when one pictures a baby crawling–she has more of a lurch thing going on.

Whereas Addison used to just roll in the general direction of something she… [keep reading]

While you weren’t sleeping

Amy — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:50:00 +0000

While you weren’t sleeping: A follow up to “While you were sleeping”

The door opened in a whisper that was certainly inaudible to all but the mom ear. In fact my ear, which had been happily slumbering seconds ago, was not even sure enough to wake up entirely. A few seconds? minutes? hours? later… [keep reading]

While you were sleeping

Amy — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 13:19:00 +0000

“Mommymommymommy.”
It was the unacceptable time of 6 am on a Sunday morning. I turned over in bed, hoping it would go away.
“MOMMYMOMMYMOMMY!”
Too soon I realized my tactic of denial wasn’t working-she was only getting louder. I was going to have to go in there.

I entered the room to… [keep reading]