These days I mostly try not to write. My life is so full of work and family and weeding. But every now and then, my brain starts to itch and the only way to scratch that itch is writing. This is where you will find my most recent scratchings.
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DIY vs. BUY
Do you remember how I said I was building my daughter a dollhouse for Christmas? Back at the beginning of the month I carefully planned it out on graph paper, borrowed a friend’s power saw, cut the pieces and stacked them in the garage. Then on my last Saturday afternoon off before My Man’s crazy test weeks, instead of diligently working on the dollhouse, I met a friend downtown to check out the New Orleans Fringe Fest. In between shows, we were wandering around the ridiculously charming art/punk part of town and got swallowed into the looming maw of an…
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DIY Glass Sippy Cup
Hallelujah. We made it through. My Man finished his last test Thursday– beginning almost 30 days of semi-freedom and familial bliss! I have so many (many) posts in my head, gathering to a complex hurricane of thoughts. But I’m really trying to relax just a bit, instead of charging into my free time with the panic of starvation. Instead of diving straight off the deep end, I thought I’d start with this simple, season-appropriate DIY project. Up until recently my kiddos largely drank out of plastic. It always bothered me, bothered the shit out of me in fact. I hate…
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Real Quick
After yesterday’s post I was treated to an unusual extra 30 minutes before the Babe woke up. I reorganized the categories a bit in the sidebar– it’s been bugging me that there wasn’t a category for the good posts. I’ve titled it “CJ’s Favorite Posts” but only because I couldn’t put my finger on a better name. What I mean is those pontificatory posts which brewed in my belly for a week and then got a good working out, the posts that have some enduring worth. Mostly they are about mothering, and the emotional aspect of balancing mothering with my…
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A Great Big Deep Breath
Friends, I have many things on my mind. It’s been a good Fast so far, 5 days in. Incredibly instructive, my mind is whirring. But not, not at all, with what you might be expecting. My mind has travelled through the subject of luxury as standard and out the other side through the psychosis created by parentally enforced asceticism. I am more conflicted than ever before, and I want like nothing else to sit down with you for four and a half hours to talk this out. However, these are the crunch days. My Man’s finals begin next week. My…
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Let the Madness Begin
Kyce from Old Recipe for a New World (she doesn’t write often, but always wonderful) wrote a great post a few weeks back called Letting Go: The Christmas Edition. Oh honey, don’t I know it! I (love)(hate) Christmas. I really do. I’ve written about it every year since I began blogging [here, here and here], and lord knows I don’t want to repeat myself. Suffice it to say, I seem to be finally catching on that this infernal holiday of compromised values begins in November. It’s taken me a full 34 years to get my head around that. I am determined to be…
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