Written on
January 28, 2010 by
Beck
By Beck The phone rang very early this morning, which made me reach for it with that feeling of impending doom. What horror would I hear? It was my daughter’s best friend. She needed a vegetable peeler for school. Ah. So after phoning my own mother – I only own one vegetable peeler, which the…
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Written on
January 21, 2010 by
Beck
By Beck I posted one of the super-rare pictures of my kids yesterday, because it was my son’s birthday and he asked me, wistfully, why I never put pictures of him on my blog. And so I spent the rest of the day receiving very nice comments over how much people think he looks like me…
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Written on
January 14, 2010 by
Beck
By Beck Recently it has been very very very obvious that puberty is lurking right around the corner in my house. My oldest child is turning 11 in a few months and in most ways still seems like a little kid with her dolls still carefully lined up on her shelf, rolling snowmen out in…
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Written on
December 31, 2009 by
Beck
By Beck It is THE LAST DAY! I am so excited! And that excitement has made me feel unexpectedly generous towards the old year. There were, I am thinking now, many nice things in it, and it would be nice to remember them briefly before blowing one final raspberry at 2009 and, as The Queen…
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Written on
December 17, 2009 by
Beck
By Beck It is very, very early in the morning. I am up and writing because I have so much planned for today that this – this time of day I normally use for sleeping – is the only time I have to write. And this is how you can tell that it’s getting very…
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Written on
December 10, 2009 by
Beck
By Beck It was a snow day yesterday, which meant that my oldest child was home from school and that I declared a house-wide break from all schoolwork and THIS meant that I spent all day listening to my kids fight and by the end of the day I was making mental lists of other…
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Written on
December 3, 2009 by
Beck
By Beck It’s suddenly snowy and my house is covered in a crazy, Clark Griswald amount of Christmas lights and we play Christmas music all day long, of course, and there is one Christmas song that makes me have to retreat and cry EVERY time I hear it. And is some haunting medieval carol, song…
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Written on
November 26, 2009 by
Beck
The first Sunday of Advent is THIS WEEKEND! Well, that was fast. I love everything about the Christmas season – I love singing carols and wrapping presents and drinking eggnog (sometimes. Sometimes eggnog is like a big cup of snot.) and I love watching the same old Christmas shows every year. I love tradition and…
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Written on
November 19, 2009 by
Beck
By Beck “This year has been awful!” I said to my husband last night – mid-asthma attack – and he laughed in a sad sort of way. We’ve had money problems. One of our kids is worrisomely stressed out all the time. We’ve lost friends. Another one of our kids is a crabby pre-teen. Elderly…
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Written on
November 5, 2009 by
Beck
By Beck So yesterday we took the kids to get their flu shots. There wasn’t a lot of debate about it – two of our three kids are in a high-risk group for flu complications AND they get everything. After school, I calmly packed the three of them into my mom’s car and we headed…
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