Life With Boys

Say the word “ice” and St. Louisans will flock to the store to buy bread, milk and eggs. The City — the metro area as a whole — does not handle inclement weather well. Several “ice days” are built into the school calendars — just in case. So we’ve had several “ice days” lately —… Continue reading

We had a porcupine rebellion this evening. OK — let me explain — a porcupine is a large meatball made with rice and covered with tomato soup. I’ve eaten them for years. They are one of my favorites. The boys and Matt refused to eat them. Porcupines anyone? I have 5 left. Continue reading

OK — after doing countless loads of laundry on my “day off” (otherwise known as the day I work my buns off, but don’t get paid) I went upstairs to discover a brand new pile of smelly garments. “Matt do you have any idea how many loads of laundry I do a week?”His brilliant response,… Continue reading

This is the backyard after the ice storms this weekend. We kept our power, but have a lot of chain saw work to do. Continue reading

I just realized I’m wearing one blue and one black shoe this morning. What a way to start Monday! Continue reading

Recovered original email. Body preserved verbatim. Hi Danielle, Got your Christmas card at my San Luis Obispo house today, just wanted to say that I really appreciate the thought 🙂 And I enjoyed reading about your lives far, far away from Ca. On this end I’m graduating with my Barch this June, and with an… Continue reading

Recovered family correspondence — January 8, 2007. I thought a lot about Lani the last couple of weeks. One of the thoughts that made me laugh was, God must have wanted someone to make brownies at 3 in the morning, as she was wont to do. Another was, she must have known she had a… Continue reading

Why God made Moms — BRILLIANT answers given by 2nd grade school children to the following questions:Why did God make mothers?1. She’s the only one who knows where the scotch tape is.2. Mostly to clean the house.3. To help us out of there when we were getting born.How did God make mothers?1. He used dirt,… Continue reading

A book I listened to lately said it takes a year and a day to mourn the loss of someone you love. I don’t know if I buy into that or not, but here we are a year later. My heart still aches, but it’s true that life does go on. But I doubt I’ll… Continue reading

Recovered family correspondence — December 30, 2006. Thank you so much! Ara Belle was one of a kind, and I’m so glad that you are doing all this work to get her story told. She was a real trooper when I announced that I was having a baby, at age 42, without a husband. She… Continue reading