Summer on November 11th, 2007

Curled up in the chair beside me lies a sleeping three year old, fully clothed to the boots, lulled into slumber despite the promise of a trip upstairs to visit the “workers”, not the first victim of “Fade Into You” by Mazzy Star. LittleA’s new habit is to ask permission to close her eyes, as [...]

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Summer on September 30th, 2007

Worse. Not better. Can’t type much. Thinking about medication today.
I’ve been mostly dilligent about food. No dairy, no wheat, no nightshade vegetables. Plenty of sugar, though. OK, so delete the sugar, salmon and rice crackers (my menu for the last 2 days, in case you care: rice crackers, smoked salmon, organic sausage, sweet tea, [...]

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Summer on September 23rd, 2007

Toddler A, screaming: “You got to get me a towel to wipe my eyes!”
M: “You can get your own towel, honey.”
ToddlerA: “I CAN’T! My hands are too sore!”

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Summer on August 28th, 2007

Promise
Concentrated heat against my spine
Tiny arm lazily draped over my shoulder,
while
Little fingertips graze my cheek

And then a soft snore.
I am compiling a list
Of reasons to wake up each day
And you are on it

I love the promise that,
No matter what our day is like
At the end of it,
The soft snore
The pocket of heat
The tickle of little [...]

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Miscellaneous updates. You’d think with all this free time, I’d write more. For the last 2 weeks, my mom has been taking ToddlerA to swim lessons at the YMCA, which is worth 10 times the price paid for it, even if she never learns a single stroke because hello, even with (almost) three adults in [...]

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