well, hells bells. what is wrong with me these days? i seem to write anywhere-but-here! i think i need a redesign. of my life, maybe, but itll be easier to begin with my blog, yes?anyway. i wrote ano...
most of the time lately, i seem to just spill my words all over this blog. theyre written distractedly and without intention, and i honestly think more about how loud each letter sounds as i punch it...
the girlies two had lacrosse all weekend. i am utterly exhausted from watching them run up and down the fields with their gorgeous young legs and swinging hair and also from keeping my stomach muscle...
if youd like, you can see two-thirds of of the girlies hairchops on instagram - im mackinink, i think. - but dont even try looking for the grae ghost. its not that shes shy. i mean, she just sa...
esmé and i stood out in the cold and waited for the discovery shuttle to fly over us. shivering because she was in sequined tap pants and the thinnest canyouseemyhoobieboobies sweater and because i w...
a long long time ago, there was a baby beginning for us. there was the shock - i thought we were done! - and then five minutes later, there was the joy - we arent done! - and then a few weeks later, ...
pats back home, so this past weekend was spent mostly soaking him up and getting accustomed to having a boy in the house once again. that just usually involves less nudity and less ice cream.on satur...
when my sister was dying...i mean, truly dying...and the only appointments she took were from people who gave her a bath or medicine that wouldnt touch her pain plus those who wanted to give their go...
esmé ran into the kitchen carrying a bunch of letters in her head.mom! does w-a-l-e spell whale?kind of! well done, mémé!and does p-i-k-l spell pickle?almost exactly!she took a deep, proud breath and...
mean people leave dents. they really do. and when youre feeling particularly soft, they draw blood.especially so when you know the person and felt like she knew you.i feel, of course, so bad about my...
lillie and grae have made the terms skeeve and aggro kind of popular at their school. i imagine many parents and skeeves will be pleased to see them get on a plane.those arent words! small people tel...
...it would beg me.ever notice that when your life grows fatter with everything delicious and mouth-watering and can i borrow that recipe, please and four hundred and fifty degrees for thirty minutes...
sending wishes youve found a forever love, or hopefully will tomorrow. doesnt matter when, i guess. just make sure you cross it off your list at some point.also not to be discounted is a healthy side...
and i just realized ive not written anything here all week. its just...i may be a little off.it started out just rotten when a friend ive never even met but who i adore nonetheless shared some sad ne...
this day is about to turn into a late afternoon and early evening of intense madness. my stress levels were freaking out a little until until until i came across a few drawings by esmé.are you sick o...
we watched man on fire all together camped out, with esmé playing more furiously when scenes turned too red for her liking.its one of my favorite movies. when the girlies ask me why, i tell them that...
its strange, the list of things-that-probably-will-neve r-happen-but-that-still-scare- the-britches-off-me. you probably have a similar list, dont you? here are my top five. this morning.one. wooden st...
it was a sunday morning or maybe saturday, but i remember three things. uncle sugar was looking quite chocolate-lovely on a leather chair with a bon appetit in his hands. i was standing in the kitche...
so i was picking up my friends full-length mink the other day...i could stop there, couldnt i? but i wont.the place was nice but kind of a hike, and there was a doorbell. i stood there for a moment w...
trying to get back here. i am i am. until then, a stashism.
do you even know some of the poor decisions ive made? like, trying to cook a pizza on a wooden pizza peel.as soon as it started flaming, i stomped my foot and asked the girlies three why the heck wou...
ages ago in oman, i had a friend who was so awesome. like, swedish supermodel who adored her gorgeous and witty italian husband and her three gorgeous and witty babes and spoke four languages. i stil...
yes, instragram. i dont know how to use it and it seems silly to me but i am such a screamingly visual person that it seems sillier that i not try it out. so i am.here is my new bauble tree. its mass...
just a few images that stopped me.this is what the new year is looking like so far. stunning.i need to remember this one. needy and homeless, redefined.and whoa. this is love, yes?may you have someon...
youre the biggest gift you can give to someone else.i know im grateful as heck for you. merry days, you little sweethearts. xoxo.
there are people out there who you might not know that well and you might not see them so often and you probably dont even know their circumstances yet - which is kind of my new word because i feel l...
did you have to read that twice? i did, too. but all of a sudden, it makes all the sense in the world.although i think id replace success with happiness.xoxo from me to you.
mondays are tough, yes? ive never been able to fall in love with a monday.until last night. when i treated her like friday.we hit pause on homework and writing and studying bahasa indonesian. meander...
my mom called late last week. we talked about when shed get here for the holidays and i tried to convince her to come even earlier and leave way later. like, the day after never. and then she mention...
a good reminder for fighty, peeved little old me.this shall include but is not limited to moods, eff words, and combative parenting skills. of which i have an abundance.teasing. i just liked the imag...
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