Despite all the grousing about 2009, there were a lot of things this past year to appreciate, like:
(Oct. 13)
The way they talk. Carmen saying Cinder-re-wra and lello (yellow); David building wooden block fences for his hossies. I wish I could follow them around with a recorder all day. "You scrubbled in my book!" David [...]
Entries Tagged as 'My Brain (and the AVM)'
Favorite Things of 2009
January 1st, 2010 by J.
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Fit for a New Year
December 31st, 2009 by J.
I’m sitting in Matt’s new Honda Fit. We bought the Fit when we realized he had been driving our 2001 Saturn SL without gear oil for, oh, who knows how long? Ever since the babies came (and the rest of the chaos that happened after) checking the Saturn’s gear oil level had fallen low, low, [...]
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Christmas Day
December 26th, 2009 by J.
We chose to spend Christmas Day at home this year like we have since 2004, when I was too hugely pregnant to travel safely and comfortably. Once the babies were born it wasn’t any easier; they hated the car and would cry until we scooped them out at our destination. Post-AVM, now I’m the one [...]
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List
May 24th, 2009 by J.
After lying low, zoning out on old movies, and napping all day, I thought I had the worst of the Carmen flu licked.
Until a little while ago.
It’s awfully hard to get a good night’s sleep when you’re coughing your throat raw. It’s even harder when your fever, just about gone all day, is back to [...]
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I’m so glad you’re here
April 23rd, 2009 by J. · 1 Comment
Just before dinner yesterday evening I walked over to visit a neighbor and express my downright contrition about a mistake I made via e-mail. She and her husband invited me in, and we chatted while they fed their toddler dinner and cooked a meal of their own.
About an hour later, I sat down at home [...]
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Blue Screen
March 13th, 2009 by J. · 1 Comment
I was trying to prepare for tomorrow. With just a few minutes left until bedtime, I sat in front of the computer, writing out a list while David and Matt worked on a large puzzle. Carmen sat at the keyboard and “played along” to the MIDI of Carmen’s toreador song, holding her notes long and [...]
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Seven Separate Somethings
March 3rd, 2009 by J.
1) The suburbs can be scary: Recently a couple of Cinco Ranch high school students wrote a satirical op-ed piece about students and families from other high schools using Cinco Ranch-area chain restaurants as hang-outs. This past Friday the students from Cinco Ranch and the other area high schools apparently used Facebook to stage a [...]
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