Posted in Uncategorized on November 30, 2006 | 11 Comments »
My husband’s family has a holiday tradition of serving plum pudding at every Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner.
Before I met Husband, I had never experienced a plum pudding beyond the pages of a Dicken’s novel. His family’s tradition holds that, after a holiday dinner, the dark, dense-looking mass is brought out on a plate, doused [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 30, 2006 | 2 Comments »
A post in which I come off smug and holier-than-thou….
So, here’s the scene:
I’m standing in line at a local mega-mart, returning some things I bought this morning after taking them home and realizing that they were either defective or outright broken. Next to the return counter is a branch of a local bank, and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 29, 2006 | 4 Comments »
I spent this morning with Organic Mama, helping her begin work on sorting through the enormity that is her study/office.
I had made the offer to help her with this several times before, but she was never quite ready to take me up on it. Last week, she’d finally worked up enough gumption to square [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 28, 2006 | 7 Comments »
I’m still not quite into holiday mode.
I mean, sure, I’m thinking about the holidays; planning menus (at least, in a preliminary sense), thinking about what gifts to get for which loved ones, making sure I know where the holiday movies and music are, but I haven’t kicked into full-blown holiday posture just yet.
I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 27, 2006 | 5 Comments »
We took our girls - ages 7 and 9 - to see Happy Feet last Wednesday. Later, we asked them which was their favorite part.
Get this answer from the seven year old:
“I liked the part where Mumble went off on his own. Even though all his people - well, his birds…well, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 27, 2006 | 6 Comments »
This has rendered me nearly speechless. How would one go about finding - and punishing - the people responsible for this?
Truly, I cannot begin to adequately express how visceral my reaction to this is. I am ashamed, yet again, to be an American.
And we wonder why the world hates us….
Posted in Uncategorized on November 26, 2006 | 5 Comments »
I’m always moved by stories of people who put things aside for children. Not long ago, I heard a story on NPR about a mom who had written letters to her daughter at fairly regular intervals through her childhood. The mom died when the daughter was about 11, and the dad presented the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 25, 2006 | 6 Comments »
Someone explain to me, please, how, exactly, we’re helping? How our being there is promoting freedom or liberty or anything other than grief and anger and hopelessness? So far, no one has been able to convince me that this is a moral, just, or even politically advantageous thing for us to be doing, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 24, 2006 | 5 Comments »
The GOOD news is that yesterday went exceedingly well. There were no obvious tensions (helped in part by the fact that the downstairs television sets were never once turned on, much to the football lovers’ disappointment), the food was excellent, and everyone was in good spirits. It was the first holiday in recent [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 23, 2006 | 4 Comments »
I’ve been attending holidays with my husband’s family for about 15 years now. Up until this year, when Christmas will be at our place, my mother-in-law (MIL) has traded holidays back and forth with her sister-in-law (Auntie L); if one had Christmas one year, the other did Thanksgiving, and then they’d switch the following [...]
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