James & Jax

What I’ve been doing: Trying to find a remedy for 5:00 toddler meltdowns. Wearing a lot of black. Bitching about too much rain and depressing gray skies. What I’ve not been doing: Blogging. Getting outside much this week. What I’ve been reading: I spent most of April buried in the Fifty Shades of Gray series, [...]

            What’s a typical night like in your house??  

Yesterday I asked you guys what you do when you’re stuck in a blogging rut. I got 3 comments. I know there are more of you reading this blog who have suffered from this conundrum before, but I’ll let you off the hook because I haven’t been commenting much these days, either. But thank you, [...]

Just a typical spring day out in the backyard… A day that screamed for popsicles. So I surprised Jax with one. And then he requested a wagon ride. And since Rooney, our terrible terrier, can’t steal food when it’s eaten inside a wagon, I agreed! Jax requested a purple popsicle instead of a green one. [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the past–not in a creepy regretful way, but in a nostalgic way. I wish I could figure out what has set me off, why I spend so much time lately rehashing things, remembering people I haven’t thought about in years, playing out scenes from a decade ago (or [...]