"Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied." -Douglas Adams
I wish I had better news about LYC’s cat but we had to put him down Saturday morning. Friday afternoon I went to visit him and the vet gave me his ultrasound results: a large mass on his liver with lymph node tumors. I think I cried from that moment through most of Saturday. I [...]
4pm 45 minutes to spare! (And for the record, both Ally and Kelly’s costumes were finished on Wednesday but then I got distracted by school and then frustrated by Emily’s costume so hers took a bit longer to finish.) Em as a Black & Orange witch, Kelly as a witch, Ally as a ghost, Kyle [...]
Just a couple of photos and then I really need to get back to studying/laundry folding/Girl Scout planning/moth killing. (There’s a stupid moth flying around the kitchen, I hope the rest is self explanatory.) Me in the booth (not pictured: a bunch of tote bags to the camera’s left) What I bought (or was given, [...]
Ah, the quiet… The reason Zach’s not in the picture with the other kids is that now as a middle schooler, he’s up and out the door about a half an hour before the elementary school kids. Which means I’m up and out of bed a half an hour before usual… And as if today [...]
So I like to knit socks. It’s kind of a weird thing to do, I know. I mean you can buy socks for like a $1. But sock knitting is the best way I de-stress. Something about making lots and lots of itty bitty loops with yarn and 4 pointy sticks the diameter of spaghetti [...]