life lately
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It’s Snowing!
Just to be clear, 99 percent of the excitement in that statement comes from Celia. She lives for snow in the winter. The rest of us are far more ambivalent or, to be honest, negative towards the snow. It doesn’t look like much right now but there is a winter storm warning in effect so we shall see. So, what shall I do on a snow day? The first thing was to sleep late which is why I am writing this post at 11:00 on a Saturday morning. I slept until 9:00 which is practically unheard of. The cat woke me up then. He needs medicine that we give to…
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December Plans//Running Away
I want to run away. I want to run away from stress and anxieties and problems I can’t solve because, heaven knows, this year has been filled with all of those things. I want to stop worrying about my kids and health issues and all the nonsense that wakes me up at 2:00 a.m. and doesn’t let me get back to sleep. I want my husband to relax and enjoy life for a little bit. I want to forget that even if I run away I will have to come back and deal with it all again. I want to pretend for just a little while that everything is under control…
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Bits And Pieces Of My Life Lately
I’ll be honest with you. This post is solely made up of photos and bits of my life that don’t really fit into any other post. So, we will start with the many pictures I have taken lately on the various walks we have been on. Today I managed to go for a walk with my husband and leave my camera and my phone behind. I just walked. Imagine that. It was very peaceful. I am not sure I would want to do it all the time, I do like taking photos, but it was nice for a change. I was in Boston twice last week which led to a…
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Twenty-Seven Years
Last week we celebrated our twenty-seventh wedding anniversary. Twenty-seven years. I might as well resign myself to the fact that we are no longer young. However, for two not-quite-old-but-no-longer-young people, we managed to have a very good time. My parents offered to have the kids spend Friday night at their house and we decided to check into a hotel near them. Since we only had twenty-four hours it didn’t make sense to spend four of those hours driving back and forth between our house and my parents’ house. So we dropped the kids off, went out to eat, and then went to a bookstore. Because what else would you do…
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Life Currently
Currently, I am sitting in bed in a mediocre motel room. I am over-tired, slightly stressed, and determined to stop Googling all my ridiculous worries that rise to the surface when life gets to be a bit too much. Really, life was more peaceful when I didn’t have the answer to things right at my fingertips. Does anyone else occasionally feel nostalgic for the days when you had to go to the library to look something up? By the time you got there you frequently forgot what you were worried about and ended up researching some random bit of fascination like the weather in the Himalayas or the possibilities of…
