I’m currently on Day 3 of this business known as Not-Leaving-the-Apartment, and poor Raven is on Day 4. It all started with an insane winter storm that dumped over 12 inches of snow in about as many hours, followed by a string of sub-zero days (like today, when we woke up and it was a …
a picture of me right now Time I woke up: 7 A.M. (a little early for me–normally I wake up closer to 8) First thing I did upon waking: said a prayer, then sneaked into the bathroom as quietly as possible so as not to wake up Raven Current weather: snowing (and pretty hard, too) …
Today has been one of Those Days. You know the ones I mean—the one where from the get go, you feel like you’re failing in general at this thing known as Adulthood and Life in General (or at the very least scraping by with perhaps a D+). And then things pile on top of that …
Today I took a sick day from work due to the fact that our entire household seems to have come down with something. Owing to our slightly varying symptoms, it’s been difficult to tell if we’ve all come down with the same something or with three different somethings, but either way, it’s not been much …
A good holiday break needs to have a good dose of crazy loud fun with family and friends (check), a healthy taste of something new (check), and a big ol’ dollop of just quiet contentment. Because, let’s face it, as an instructor of over 150 students, “quiet contentment” is a commodity that’s hard to come …
Today an old man at the grocery store was solidly convinced Raven was a boy “because she’s dressed in blue” despite the woman he was with trying to point out the white hairbow and the fact that the blue outfit was actually a dress with polka dots. I still don’t think he was fully convinced, …
(photo unrelated to post, but I like it so I’m posting it anyway!) Today I woke up at five o’clock so that I could drive down to Provo for a week-long educator conference that consists of me writing standardized test questions for 8 hours a day, 5 days this week. Today I found out that …
