Mom on the edge.
And here’s what I learned on my self-imposed break from blogging, Facebooking, and mindless internetting: Surprisingly, not being on the internet is just as addictive as being on it. Very quickly I began to love the days when I didn’t turn my computer on. I loved doing a 30-second scan of unread posts in Google [...]
The other day Henry came downstairs with a drawing, wanting it to be made into a paper airplane. He looked at me and said, “Where’s Dave?” (The children call Dave by his first name; we honestly have no idea why.) When he couldn’t find Dave he grudgingly allowed me to make the paper airplane. An [...]
It has been a week of me feeling majorly resentful of my children. They are just so needy and that neediness is often accompanied by full-pitch whininess, and I’m sorry, how many years do you have to spend saying, “I can’t understand you when you whine” for them to stop whining? Because really, it’s been [...]
My mom was just here for a few days. She gave Eli a giant calculator, which he loves, and calls his “computer.” Today he said, “I have to do some work on my computer,” Then he set it out in front of him, and heaved a great big weary sigh. I guess the workaday world [...]
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