By Beck I nearly burned down my house this morning! It was unintentional and involved a CANDLE LEFT BURNING IN AN EMPTY ROOM – just like the PSA! – and I came in and found that flames were just moments away from beginning to lick the wooden wall. Good timing on my part, I suppose,…
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Cute Lil’ Cupcake
By Beck The Baby is attending a Valentine’s Day party today, which means – oh, OF COURSE – yet another batch of elaborate cupcakes for me to stay up late making. Someday I will be better at managing my time and will figure out how to make cupcakes during DAYLIGHT HOURS, but by then I’ll…
Nudie Patootie
By Beck My husband told our boy that the word “gymnasium” comes from the Greek “to exercise naked“, which struck the kid as uproariously hilarious. So hilarious, in fact, that he just had to share it with his whole math class today and that is why I had a phonecall from his teacher this afternoon….
Cabin Fever
By Beck I’m really static-y right now. Every time I’ve kissed my kids over the past week, they’ve managed to get a considerable static-charged shock from me. It’s a blessing that we don’t have carpets – particularily SHAG carpets – or the static build-up might have reached dangerous levels by now. Winter comes as a…
Midway
By Beck I know a lot of women expecting their first babies right now (like, NINE. What’s up, my fecund friends?), and so I’m surrounded by one of the things I find funniest in this whole world: expectant first-time parents. That combination of idealism – horribly misplaced idealism – and bravado and high, unrealistic expectations…
Hearts
By Beck This is a reprint of my Valentine’s Day post from last year and it’s one of my very favorite things I’ve ever written. Do you still have living grandparents? Between the two of us, my husband and I have three – two grandmothers and a grandfather – and our relationships with them are…
All Things Are New
By Beck By the time you read this, it will be 2009, although right now while I am writing this it is still the very dregs of 2008 and all of my kids have feverish, snotty colds and we’re watching Wall-E and eating appetizers – the usual New Year’s Eve pattern for us. Even with…
Merry Christmas
By Beck I salute you. I am your friend and my love for you goes deep. There is nothing I can give you which you have not got. But there is much, very much, that while I cannot give it, you can take. No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in…
The Herdmans were absolutely the worst kids in the history of the world.
By Beck My mother has been a teacher for a while now – in fact, one of her current students told her that she’d taught her grandmother. And it is a sign of my mother’s sterling character and good sense of humour that she was delighted to hear this. My mother is the teacher that…
Finally
By Beck I was sick! But now I’m not. I was actually sick for the past three weeks, this grim stomach bug that’s been making the rounds locally. It was pretty great – I’d be really sick for a day or two and then it would ebb away and I’d start thinking, foolishly, that I…