A New Day

It’s 3 o’clock in the morning and you are wrenched from sleep by the distinct sound of your child whimpering from their room. You dash dow...

I just rolled out of bed. It is noonish.    yawwnnnn.... Before you punish me with an abusive tirade on my slothfulness, I will add that ...

Grounded  by sick child and rain. ~~~ Well, the garage sale went on in the rain, but without me. My attempts to bring forth sunshine failed ...

   The postal carrier brought pleasant surprises to my world today. I rifled past bills, tax forms and donations requests and found two enve...

   Well, I had hopes for today, but plans dashed again. Ah, who I am kidding? I dropped the girls at daycare and went to stare into a coffee...

   Today has not gone according to plan. Funny how that happens when children inhabit your world. In the pre-dawn hours a cry rang out. I wa...

   The spectre of that evil monster, that icky trickster, the dreaded and ever lurking COLD has struck again. Yes, a cold has descended upo...

There might be a slight change in final deadline in my present project. My littlest girl was up last night throwing up. Once just after bedt...

   So all my complaining this weekend only helped to sour my poor little girl. The countdown is progressing towards an imminent visitor and ...

   How do you manage to stay positive? I visit beautiful places like GardenMama  and see a steadfast belief in the human spirit. I admire it...

   So my day started out fine and normal, as noted. Special day this as I have thrown in many comments today. Field trip was cancelled, but ...