Elena at My Domestic Church talks about Saving Advent. I swear she wrote this just for me. I started my Advent out with the best of intentions, with our wreath, I put together daily Bible readings and pictures to put on the Jesse Tree every night with the kids, I had planned to faithfully start… Continue reading Something I Needed
Category: Peonyiana
When “write what you know” starts getting scary
So my post total’s been in the tank since I moved a couple of years ago. Some of it’s because of Real Life Going at High Velocity; some of it is because I’ve been making a concerted effort to Not Spend So Much Darn Time on the Internet; some of it’s because Hambet knows that… Continue reading When “write what you know” starts getting scary
Eight facts about Peony
I’ve been tagged by Mama T! Here are the rules: Each player lists 8 facts/habits about themselves. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning before those facts/habits are listed. At the end of the post, the player then tags 8 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves… Continue reading Eight facts about Peony
awesome
I’m terza rima, and I talk and smile.Where others lock their rhymes and thoughts awayI let mine out, and chatter all the while. I’m rarely on my own – a wasted dayIs any day that’s spent without a friend,With nothing much to do or hear or say. I like to be with people, and dependOn… Continue reading awesome
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a snapshot
Snow. Sleet. Ice. Sniffles and sore throats and a solid week off school. Toilets overflowing and soaking the basement floor (with clean water, thank God.) Stomach flu. A sixth birthday for Hambet. Work (a temp agency found me a copacetic assignment — part time work during school hours only.) And a resolution to give up… Continue reading a snapshot
boxes, boxes, boxes
Well, we did it! On May 31 we settled on our old house and our new house without bloodshed (though the people who bought our old house annoyed the settlement attorney so much, she held back the bottle of champagne she’d brought for them and only gave a bottle to us. Ha!) We’re almost unpacked;… Continue reading boxes, boxes, boxes
tagged!
Four Jobs 1.Clerk in a craft store 2.Clerk and salad-bar tender in a grocery store deli 3.Office Temp 4.Registered Nurse Four Movies I Would Watch Over and Over: 1.Persuasion 2.The Incredibles 3.Tampopo 4.Monsters, Inc Four Places I Have Lived: 1. Durbin, North Dakota 2. Tacoma, Washington 3. San Antonio, Texas 4. Baltimore, Maryland Four TV… Continue reading tagged!