I’m finding it hard to keep my nose to the grindstone for the last couple weeks of (paying, at-home) work before maternity leave. Especially today, other things took precedence. I was up early and got some housework done, did a lot of reading about posterior presentation and its implications for labor (the baby […]
Today is MFH and my second anniversary. It’s also pretty close to the fifth anniversary of the day that I told God He’d have to just go and knock some guy over the head to make him like me, because nothing that I was trying was working, with anyone. (The fifth anniversary of […]
FlyLady is right: I do have more energy when I wear shoes around the house. Especially this house, where there is hardly any carpet at all. I remember how hard the floors felt at first, when we were moving in from our carpeted apartment. Plus my feet are supporting a whole […]
I’ve been following the Althouse - Feministing battle of the boobs a little, and it’s been fun to watch Althouse lay down the I-was-a-feminist-before-you-were-even-in-diapers smack. It is ridiculous for a feminist blogger to stand in a look-at-my-boobs pose right in front of Bill Clinton in a group picture. I haven’t kept up with […]
Five years ago, I spent my lunch hour at church shovelling dirt to cover the building project scars out back, when I should have been at school preparing for my doctoral dissertation defense on Sept. 13. The contractors had their truck radio on, and that’s how I learned of the attacks. It sounded […]
Saturday we decommissioned Stinky, our mattress, and ordered a new one. I got Stinky as a second-hand dumpster-side treasure when I was single, new to Minnesota, and only had a hard cot to sleep on. Better a clean-looking, used, name-brand mattress than nothing. Picture me dragging a substantial mattress (queen) up a […]
Good luck, Steve, in your new small business gig!
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It’s even more different at a very small company like the one I work for, where the entire company can meet around a single conference table. MFH works for a somewhat larger small company, one that’s large enough to have its own employee handbook with annoying […]
Large Family Logistics has an interesting post about a large family that bought themselves a school to live in. Not a one-room schoolhouse, either.
My September is pretty well over-scheduled, between work deadlines, baby classes, social activities, and all the other things I’m trying to get done before the baby comes next month. I’m hopelessly behind on weeding the flower beds, partly because MFH has devoted all his (limited) gardening time to the vegetables this summer. I […]
From Homeliving Helper on the joy of homemaking:
Homemakers are often described by career women as Stepford wives, as someone put it “popping out children and being subservient to their husbands”. Feminist career women get all upset when someone even hints that may be, women belong at home, yet they consider it normal to insult their […]