Author: mrs

I started a “5 minute journal” at the beginning of 2023.  I wrote in it every day for the first few days, then once every couple of months thereafter.  I just went back and reread it (it didn’t take long, as it only comprised a couple of pages-thanks, past me for being a slacker). It…

Husband wants me to blog… He’s got a point. I just looked back over the last few weeks of blog posts, and it’s husband, husband, husband, with a couple of cameos by me. So good job, husband, for keeping the blog running while I work through my complicated feelings in my head instead of on…

I’ve been sick and tired. First, I got the flu about 4 weeks ago. That led to bronchitis, which has lingered and lingered. Then the stomach flu at Christmas. Then the bronchitis flared back up and I injured my rib cartilage coughing. And then yesterday morning my back muscles freaked out and I was stuck…

So first, we had to cancel plans to host family for Christmas dinner, because 3 year old was throwing up 3 days before Christmas, and my extended family is not keen on getting sick. Which is understandable. So I made all of our fancy Christmas meal for Christmas Eve dinner, and we ate it on…

I spent a lot of today grasping for rest. Trying to get the kids distracted all at the same time so I could try to take a nap. And another nap, because one little naplet wasn’t enough. Because I’m beyond tired. And it made me kind of grumpy and yelly. Because the kids didn’t really…

I still feel super sick. I have lingering bronchitis, and it seems to be getting worse instead of better. Last night 9 year old was sick, so she was sleeping in the living room, which meant that I couldn’t sleep in the living room, so I woke up the baby with my incessant coughing, and…

I got like 4 hours of sleep last night and it was awesome. Because I’ve been getting 1-2 hours of sleep for the past couple of nights, because I can’t stop coughing, because I have the bronchitisiest bronchitis, that’s a lot of becauses, anyway, my point is, I feel a little better. But I have…

I have to shop for presents for my kids. Also I have bronchitis.

I took the kids to Mass at the parish church last Friday, and they begged me to get a tag off of the giving tree at the front of the church. I reluctantly agreed- reluctant, not because I’m miserly with money, but because I’m miserly with my time, and I know that I tend to…

Today was kind of rough. I tried to keep the baby on fever medicine, because yesterday his fever got kind of scary-high. Scary to me, at least, I feel like crap with a 99F fever, but husband and the boys in our family regularly get like 102, or 103F fevers and it’s not hospital-worthy or…

I spent most of today lying on the floor with the 1 year old while the 3 year old played with mud, broke into the prunes, and (we discovered much later) relocated items from the real refrigerator to the play kitchen refrigerator, which does not, in fact, keep things cold. So we had to throw…

I have been trying to write a blog post for the last half an hour as the kids fight and lose their mindcakes over countless nothings.  Time to call this (badly) done and move on to something that requires just a bit less brain function.

So I’m a business expert, because I’ve read almost 2 books on the subject.  And all (both) of the books that I have read say the same thing, more or less: find your customer, not your product. The first book presupposed a product and was elucidating the process of marketing it, but really that process…

Advent is my favorite liturgical season.  I’m actually not a big fan of Christmas, and I think that makes it easier for me to live in the moment of anticipation.  6 year old asks me, “can you not wait for Christmas, Mama?” and I’m like, “Nah, I’m cool.”  I savor the 3 or 4 weeks…

I’m drawing a blank.  Life has gotten a little more more in the last couple of days, and I’m struggling to keep up with the new normal, or even just my expectations and fears about the new normal.  That kind of seems like a waste of energy, since I don’t really know what life will…

It’s been a long day.

It was a busy, exhausting day, and I had a bit of a meltdown at dinner making time, which is, to be honest, not something that doesn’t happen from time to time.  Parse that sentence.   However, I pushed myself to write a bit of content for one of my nascent blog ideas, and to pick…

It’s been a pretty good day.  Baby 1 year old slept all the way till 5 or 6.  I’ve been driving around all day from appointment to errand to drop off to pick up to errand to pick up, which I find exhausting, but every single thing was a good thing that was worth the…

Just when I was feeling super overwhelmed and underwater, it looks like my schedule will be opening up.   We will be dropping most of 9 year old’s appointments (and it’s a good thing!)