The negotiations started on Wednesday.

“So, what do we need to do this weekend?”

“Well, I have laundry, bills, and I have to fix the sprinklers again. I also wanted to try to fit 9 holes in- maybe we can all go again like last weekend?”

My husband referred to our creative and moderately successful bid to get 9 holes of (admittedly bad) golf packed into our weekend without a) the expense of a babysitter and b) losing precious time with our 2 kids. Despite the 7am tee time, it worked pretty well; they caught (more…)

I’ve been going through one of those periods when it feels like there are just not enough hours in the day. Maybe you know the feeling- one minute it’s a bright, clean morning and you’re setting out the tasks for the day and suddenly you look up at the clock and it’s time to hightail it home to make dinner and take on the Mom Mantle. It’s frankly always a relief (more…)

“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.”- J. R. R. Tolkien

I read a great post today on “Dr. Jekyll and Mrs. Hyde” about feeling stupid doing science: http://drjekyllandmrshyde.blogspot.com/2008/06/stupid-is-as-stupid-does.html
What a great post. I’m writing in response to that post with the, perhaps, delusional a (more…)