Earthmovers and Sandcastles

From Lifehacker, “Top 10 Ways Your Brain is Sabotaging You“: You let negative feelings about putting off tasks prevent actual work. For example, if I feel guilt for not updating, it makes me not look forward to updating, and I’m trapped. Or else it’s just that there’s so, so much to talk about… Mom and [...]

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Voila: usable space. You can see the closet in the bottom two shots. It’s still packed full of toys, but they’re at least organized by type (trains with trains, Playmobil with Playmobil, etc.) in boxes and bins. Very usable, if it can stay that way; I heard Gabe on the phone with each of my [...]

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For the past few days, I have been completely wrapped up in the kids’ playroom-turned-office. This has been a Production. I’m still not where I want to be, but I’m working quickly. You know that stage of a project in which things look completely chaotic, far worse than they did before you started? Yeah, well, [...]

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So with both boys being in school next year, Eric and I figured that they needed a more “official” work area. As it currently stands, Sam’s desk is in the living room, spending most of its existence covered in stuff. He’s done his homework, for the most part, at a lap desk on the landing [...]

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I have a confession to make. Some people I know are really, really “good” at shopping. They can – and do! – use coupons. They can calculate unit prices in their heads, and they can recall from memory what a reasonable unit price for any particular item might be. They can keep a running tally [...]

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Not that there’s nothing going on; it’s just that most of it is “second verse, same as the first” type stuff. The kids are back in school following their break, and that’s going well. (Whoops, I have to get a tee-shirt to take in for Gabe’s preschool graduation ceremony that I’m “not allowed to know [...]

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There are plenty of people in this world who don’t have indoor plumbing at all! I should be grateful just to have a toilet, even if it does overflow and flood the bathroom every time I flush, and it’s Friday evening, and all the plumbers in the city will be billing time and a half…

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Last night… GABE: “I hate corn on the cob! You made me corn on the cob! Where is the love we had?!” This afternoon… SAM: “Gabe stepped on a big ant, and then two other ants came and carried it away! He smashed my dreams!” I think we’re gearing up for a simply smashing set [...]

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I actually did manage to stay out last night until everybody was asleep (it’s aggravating to think that’s what will be the case, only to find an overtired kid yelling from his bed, well past his bedtime, that he’s NEVER going to sleep, not EVER), and it was good to not have to speak, to [...]

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  Planted: one Bing Cherry tree, one Bartlett Pear tree. Also, roughly 50 pounds of soil into the flesh of my hands.

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