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Whew. I’m just back from Vermont to visit my mother and help her with Mother’s Day in the flower shop. I drove up with my sister and within hours of arriving at my mother’s a manure truck rumbled down the street. For some reason my sister thought this was hilarious. She jabbed at me and [...]
Put on your party hats and ready your pens. The 100 Words challenge has returned to roost. A few admin-ish things. LinkyTools, for all their paid subscription glory, is still less than perfect in its execution. I renewed the subscription but the automated system failed to detect the successful payment. I’ve followed all the proper [...]
I realized tonight that I vowed I wasn’t going to do stressful holidays anymore, and in that spirit I’m going to take a couple of weeks off from Velvet Verbosity so that I can have a few more hours to add to the holiday schedule. Hours that I hope will allow me to relax into [...]
The kittens are at the foot of my bed playing with a mouse on a string, taking turns batting and gnawing. They have become quite delightful, fetching toys, wrestling one another, sleeping on heads and tucked under chins, trilling their greetings, and showing off their intelligence to the delight of visitors. Over the weekend we [...]
The house is quiet. Two of my people are out holiday shopping, and the third fell asleep early on the couch, his freshly showered hair spiking out at odd angles from underneath a comforter. Quiet reminds me of what I loved about the early days of motherhood. The frequent naps, the husband gone for the [...]
