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Labors Lost: Laments on the Thankless Nature of Raising Someone Else’s Child
Reflecting on the thankless nature of raising someone else's child. Being a step-parent isn't easy. Who knew?
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Stick a Sock In It…
I am thankful for the luxury of being able to do laundry from within my home. But I am reminded of another day when I was doing laundry.
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Been a long time…
Well, I just noticed that it’s been an indecently long time since I have written. And I guess it’s high time I got it together and updated. Its down to the last weeks before my husband returns from this latest deployment. I am excited and nervous. Nervous that he has a mental image of what the house we moved into almost a year ago looks like, and that the expectations are high. There’s still a lot of unpacked boxes and odds and ends I haven’t quite figured out what to do with in this new house. It has been busy. It seems like every day a thousand things are on…
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It’s Mother’s Day…Happy?!
I should have been elated for my special day. It was not the case. I think I am the only one aware in my household *that and my 5 year old* that this weekend was Mother’s Day. He brought me home a plant that he seeded himself in class and a card cut out to form the word MOM with his photo on the front. This was a work of pure genius. My other son brought me a golden dragon (for the Chinese Year of the Dragon that he and I share) that he crafted with his hands out of clay. It was wondrous and I quickly hid it from…
