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Is There Life Out There
Nov. 29th, 2003 03:05 pmDoing a lot better than yesterday. Thanks, guys, and ::hugs:: back to all of you.
Lovely day so far. I say that in both the genuine and the sarcastic way.
Sarcastic, because it rained all day yesterday until about 3am, then started to snow. And it's still snowing. Ice and snow, wonderful things to wake up to, especially when you have to drive your partner back to the hospital for call and drive two little boys to Ottawa U for day camp. We couldn't even open the frigging car doors.
Lovely, because otherwise the day has been pretty good so far. I ran around getting everything organized - breakfast, winter clothes, lunch and snacks for boys, etc. Felt like a chicken with my head cut off, but I finally got a huge bag full of stuff ready, then woke up Chris (who, BTW, had come in last night at 3am and was grabbing as much sleep as he could before going back to work) then drove them all to their respective places.
(Incidentally I heard the most amazing thing at the day camp. I showed Kate (the camp organizer) the kids' bag, and told her I'd brought a lot of extra clothing so that if any of the other kids were missing anything, she could still take them outside to play and just use whatever my boys weren't using. "My goodness, you certainly are organized!" she said. Never heard that particular adjective attached to me before. Good thing she hadn't seen me running around my house in the morning).
Then I went to Chapters. Mmm, Chapters. Did a bit of my Christmas shopping, and got a book just for me: "What If?" Essays written by major historians about what the world might have been like had various events happened differently: Pontius Pilate spared Christ, Harold of England defeated William the Conqueror, Pius XII protested the Holocaust, America never had Nixon, Johnson, and Kennedy, the Chinese discovered the New World... I'm swooning with history-geek joy.
Oh, and here's a list that some of you might get a kick out of, from my friend Sarah's blog: Why Anne Blythe is a better model mother than Caroline Ingalls, or "Why Y'all Are Yearning to be the Wrong Literary Mother".
And Sarah, re your entry about your own Stitch? Chris seconded the 1-2-3 Magic book that somebody else suggested. He said he really doesn't see why it's such a big deal, but everybody he's heard of who used it swears by it, so there must be something to it. I'll be checking it out myself.
Later. Now it's time to get down to serious (read: boring) business.
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Lovely day so far. I say that in both the genuine and the sarcastic way.
Sarcastic, because it rained all day yesterday until about 3am, then started to snow. And it's still snowing. Ice and snow, wonderful things to wake up to, especially when you have to drive your partner back to the hospital for call and drive two little boys to Ottawa U for day camp. We couldn't even open the frigging car doors.
Lovely, because otherwise the day has been pretty good so far. I ran around getting everything organized - breakfast, winter clothes, lunch and snacks for boys, etc. Felt like a chicken with my head cut off, but I finally got a huge bag full of stuff ready, then woke up Chris (who, BTW, had come in last night at 3am and was grabbing as much sleep as he could before going back to work) then drove them all to their respective places.
(Incidentally I heard the most amazing thing at the day camp. I showed Kate (the camp organizer) the kids' bag, and told her I'd brought a lot of extra clothing so that if any of the other kids were missing anything, she could still take them outside to play and just use whatever my boys weren't using. "My goodness, you certainly are organized!" she said. Never heard that particular adjective attached to me before. Good thing she hadn't seen me running around my house in the morning).
Then I went to Chapters. Mmm, Chapters. Did a bit of my Christmas shopping, and got a book just for me: "What If?" Essays written by major historians about what the world might have been like had various events happened differently: Pontius Pilate spared Christ, Harold of England defeated William the Conqueror, Pius XII protested the Holocaust, America never had Nixon, Johnson, and Kennedy, the Chinese discovered the New World... I'm swooning with history-geek joy.
Oh, and here's a list that some of you might get a kick out of, from my friend Sarah's blog: Why Anne Blythe is a better model mother than Caroline Ingalls, or "Why Y'all Are Yearning to be the Wrong Literary Mother".
And Sarah, re your entry about your own Stitch? Chris seconded the 1-2-3 Magic book that somebody else suggested. He said he really doesn't see why it's such a big deal, but everybody he's heard of who used it swears by it, so there must be something to it. I'll be checking it out myself.
Later. Now it's time to get down to serious (read: boring) business.
( Agenda )
