My Corner of the World

Ha! I was just reading my sister's blog. She likes to give nicknames to everyone in her family and had some new appellations for every member of my family. I'm laughing, but I don't know if everyone else is. I just need to put a picture of every member of my family next to the name. When-I-gave-a-lecture-at-Harvard"-anecdote-spewing G-Lens, Disturbingly-Mommy-like Barbarian, Random-often-accurate-fact-spouting Abel, Infinitely-nongullible Chameleon, Snake-activist Mawky, Constantly-somersaulting Lenny

I've never wanted to be one of those people that write "momblogs." So much of my day is spent being a mom, that I'd rather write about something else in my spare time. Does that make me selfish? So tonight for dinner, I was a bad wife. I am embarrassed to admit that I had a 4:00 snack that squelched my desire to eat anything else. It was a very substantial snack--4 molasses cookies from Costco - 4. After I finished the fourth one, I managed to hide the rest of the box from myself, but I didn't want to think about food anymore So husband comes home and asks what I want for dinner. I say "Didn't you hear me say that I just ate 4 ginormous Costco cookies?" "Well," he says "what do you want for dinner that's light?" As little as possible. I was trying to skip dinner because of the guilt over eating four HUGE cookies. So he made turken (turkey bacon) BLTs with frozen peas on the side. (The peas compensate for at least one of ...

Does that voice in your head ever starting narrating your life as you live it? Mine does and right now it's sounding like that movie "The Pursuit of Happyness" where the Will Smith character was just trying to scrape by with a place to sleep for his son. He had a phase in his life he called running. I have that one too- not the same as his - but right now I can hear myself narrating: (not that my life would ever be made into a movie) "This is a part of my life I like to call Driving."  And yes, I do know that school's only been in for 1/2 a day. I mean people have to travel right? I grew up in a sprawly western town and I had to drive a lot to get places. I had to drive to my job, I had to drive to the university. I had to drive to get to church. I had to drive to get where I needed to go. So, for right now, I can drive to get my daughter to where she needs to be. Or, rather, to get my sons to where they need to be and to pick up my daughter fro...