Yesterday we had a first: Little Miss invited a friend to come play for the day.
For those of you out there with the average 10-year-old girl, this is probably not a big thing. For those of us with a language-inhibited autistic child, it’s monumental. We watched over every part of the day like scientists at [...]
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24 Aug
The last few days of summer
The back-to-school countdown is on.
More so on our parts than on the children, sadly. Isn’t it time for school yet???!!
It’s also Fair Week, which is the biggest event of the calendar year here. Thanks to my clients, I learned a lot about what it takes to enter and maintain cattle through 4-H, and Little Miss [...]
3 Aug
The sunshine of life
But you got to have friends
The feeling’s oh so strong
You got to have friends
To make that day last long…
This weekend we hosted the Navy Girls Reunion Tour as my daughter M, three of her former Navy galpals, and their six children all descended on the house. Six adults and eight children, even in a house [...]
9 Jun
On the road again
The older I get, traveling seems to be one of my favorite occupations. Not that I get to do it that much. But each summer we seem to try to fit in more and more places to see.
This summer we’ve agreed that the Captain needs some time away from us and vice versa, and he’s [...]
9 Dec
It’s aboot the cheese, eh
I’m really looking forward to several visits from family and near-family over the holidays, including a first from the charming Canadian host of our stay in Toronto.
He and B will be here for Christmas–i.e. he can meet the whole clan and decide if he ought to bail before it’s too late– and it will [...]
9 Oct
No place like home
I’m being evicted. By my husband.
The Cabana Boy has decreed that I shall take my laptop and some things and take myself hence from these premises–for the weekend.
The laptop is because I’m heavy into editing my urban fantasy. The things are because my sister is a good conservationist and keeps her thermostat low so I [...]
12 Aug
Toronto: Day Two
We debated many possible ways to spend the afternoon before returning to the States. My request was for a tour of the city, and the Cabana Boy was willing to oblige by being the driver. (Tho it must be said Canadian drivers are very polite, if somewhat unpredictable.)
First we headed to the waterfront at Queen’s [...]
1 Jul
Ah, brief respite!
Poet Anne Shaw says, “Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace.” This is undeniably true.
One of the few advantages I had as a single mother for many years is that my children’s father lived 1500 miles away. (No, not because he was far away! [...]
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