Posted in Life as a MereMortal Mama on July 20, 2008 | 5 Comments »
A ten-minute writing challenge, courtesy of Jena.
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Where to I start? 8:44 pm
Where do I start? This is a consistent, unanswered question in my life. (Oops, I hit backspace to delete some words and I am not supposed to be editing).
Where do I start this sentence? This train of thought, [...]
Posted in Life as a MereMortal Mama on July 15, 2008 | 11 Comments »
We are home (announced with a big sigh of relief). Two weeks, two parties, and two houseguests later our home has officially been broken in. It fits us perfectly. Our home has sumptuous natural light, NO CARPET in the living areas (although the echo is quite irritating), and a divinely deep [...]
Posted in Life as a MereMortal Mama on June 26, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Goldfish, Cookies, and a packet of oatmeal. That’s what remains of the food in our pantry, the other boxes of half-empty pasta and two-year old rice packed away for a few days until the big move.
Packing has gone – erhm – slowly. Much slower than I ever had anticipated. Since the time of my [...]
Posted in Life as a MereMortal Mama on June 11, 2008 | 15 Comments »
That’s how I have to pack a house. Yesterday? Three boxes packed. It was progress. I had an assistant helping me out:
An hour later, another “assistant” rummaged through an unclosed box, flinging DVD’s from their cases “Ohhh, CARS! Mama, Dan Zaaaanes! Look, it’s Elmo!”
Shit, this is gonna be much [...]
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