I was raised by the very anti-social parents, so we rarely went anywhere except to visit family. Granted, my parents have a lot of brothers and sisters, but still… I also have this trait, but I am becoming very tired of it. DH is often gone in the evenings either teaching classes, training for his [...]
The big orange hunting socks are finally finished. These took quite a long time to knit compare to the others lately. First they are bigger socks and longer socks and the pattern repeats are on every round – whew! First modeled by Miss Bug… Then by DH. His father is the recipient. Particulars… Yarn: Trekking [...]
The Bug and I will be taking off on Sunday to central Virginia to visit my sister’s family. We are driving and the maps/directions say we will have 8 hours in the car. Bug has always been a poor traveler, so I hope to make it in under 12 hours. Traveling these days makes me [...]
Not much progress on crafting fronts because I’ve been pouring myself into reading a parenting book. Bug’s behavior had been getting the best of me. After a particularly trying evening, a friend mentioned the word ‘boundary’ to me and it got me thinking about them. As an older mom of an only child who nursed [...]
January is difficult for me. I feel so tired. I’m still knitting on Bug’s socks (second one now) and the Elizabeth lace scarf. The new computer is doing well except I think Bug messed up the ‘o’ key as it looks a little off kilter and doesn’t seem to work much. Ok, just fixed it. [...]
Happy New Year! I get kind of blue this time of year when all the holiday items have been taken down making everywhere look “naked” without the ribbons and lights. Also, the gray, rainy, cold days of January don’t help. To combat this I’m going to try and find something each day that is fun/happy/pleasurable [...]
Bug has been super-cantankerous these past few days. To quote Elvis… ‘She looks like an angel, walks like an angel, talks like an angel, but I got wise – she’s the devil in disguise. Oh, yes she is the devil in disguise.’ A ‘hitting, pinching, climbing all over me, disobeying constantly, being mean to the [...]
I have this beautiful, smart child. She is only 2. She is the only one we have, and will likely have. She wears me out and wallers me to the point that I am cranky, short-tempered, and sometimes mean. I don’t like myself when I feel and act this way. I love her and [...]
The school year is nearly upon us here in middle Tennessee – that is for the University. Next week will bring nonexistent parking spaces, even at 7am in the morning. It will also bring a flood of traffic onto the nearby roads that have ALL been and will be torn up for months and months [...]
I think I’m kind of burned out at work. I barely get anything of my own accomplished. I just seem to answer questions from my research students as they come up. I keep piddling around on the computer. The students will be done next Friday. I really like them and they all are working very [...]
