Travelingjenny
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Category: craziness
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This is one of the advantages of living in the country. Also, you don't have to mow your lawn very often, and you can let unruly weeds overtake things (like the swingset) and no one will look at you funny. We like it here.
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The other day, Grace asked me how the very first person was able to create all of the other people in the world. I'm not quite sure where this came from, except, of course, that our children are geniuses (and have a current fascination with dinosaurs). Anyway, I immediately launched into a clumsy explanation of…
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What did I do today, you wonder? Well, I made 22 heart-shaped sandwiches, and a dozen heart-shaped pretzels for lunch for Grace's classmates tomorrow. Because, somewhere along they way, I became that kind of mom. The kind of mom that has lots of time to think about what cutesy things could be done for a…
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February is my least favorite month. It's simply a month to tolerate, to soldier through with our heads down and our coats zipped up tight. It's a month of bitter cold, feelings of being housebound in the Maine woods, and a week-long break from school (really, in February? what are we supposed to do all week?).…
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Wondering why you haven't heard from me lately? It's very simple: I'm merely struggling to keep my head above water, and at the end of the day I simply don't have the mental energy for blogging. Here, in a nutshell, is what I've been dealing with: * A three-year old who has decided that she…
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It's 8:17 pm on Thursday. Bedtime was one hour and 17 minutes ago. As I type this, Grace is standing at her bedroom door sobbing and shouting, "No one loves me! They said they would love me, but they don't anymore! PLEEEEEASE someone, I need help blowing my nose! No one in this entire house…
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One of the things I miss most about my former life — my pre-motherhood existence — is the ability to travel. I was a world traveler, and I was good at it. I could get anywhere, figure anything out, arrive in an eastern European country in the middle of the night without a place to…
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[Update: As of 7pm on Wednesday, our power is back on! It went off in the middle of the night on Sunday, so that's about 65 hours without heat, water, or lights. We won't be heading home until Thursday morning so that things have time to warm up a bit…] About 40 hours into our…
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A friend recently sent me an article from a 1955 issue of Good Housekeeping magazine, entitled: “The good wife’s guide.” This seems to have been intended as a sort of primer on how a housewife should behave upon her husband’s arrival home from work. Clearly, I would have been an absolutely terrible wife in 1955:…
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Because of my not-the-most-fun-ever week at home with the girls, I was given a break today. Yes, a blissful two hours all to myself. And for some odd reason, I chose to spend those two hours in Freeport. The biggest tourist destination in Maine. On a holiday weekend. At the start of Christmas shopping season.…
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