The Hare with the Amber Eyes- DeWaal
Finding George Orwell in Burma- Emma Larkin
Sapiens- Yuil Harari
Orange is the New Black
Thinking Fast and Slow
A Visit from the Good Squad
The is the Story of a Happy Marriage
Also:Westport Playhouse
Rounding Up the Thoughts of a Mom Teacher Writer
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Quinton Quotes- Curses and Hand-him-downs
Yesterday:
Q: "Mom, is 'dumbass' a bad word?"
Me: "What?"
Q: "Is-- ohhhhh I get it, dumb ASS. Yeah, that's a bad word."
Today:
I think I said the word "crap," as in, "If there wasn't so much CRAP in your room, that would have been easier to find."
Q got excited, and I thought it was because he was going to say I owed him money for cursing. He might have been going to say that, but then he said, "Hey, Mom... can we curse, since just you are me are home? Like, if no one else is home, can you and I curse?" He looked so hopeful. I have to admit, it sounded kind of fun, but of course I couldn't agree to that.
Me: "No, that's probably not a good idea."
Him: "The other day, I almost said a bad word, but I said 'FUNK.' I said 'funk' instead of 'fuck.' Oh shoot!"
Mom, it's so unfair. All of Gregory's things are hand-him-downs. They're all from Roderick.
- Q, May 2017
Looking at photos with my parents. April 2017.
Q: Awwwww. Why could I not time travel... and fix everything that's wrong with my hair.
Q: "Mom, is 'dumbass' a bad word?"
Me: "What?"
Q: "Is-- ohhhhh I get it, dumb ASS. Yeah, that's a bad word."
Today:
I think I said the word "crap," as in, "If there wasn't so much CRAP in your room, that would have been easier to find."
Q got excited, and I thought it was because he was going to say I owed him money for cursing. He might have been going to say that, but then he said, "Hey, Mom... can we curse, since just you are me are home? Like, if no one else is home, can you and I curse?" He looked so hopeful. I have to admit, it sounded kind of fun, but of course I couldn't agree to that.
Me: "No, that's probably not a good idea."
Him: "The other day, I almost said a bad word, but I said 'FUNK.' I said 'funk' instead of 'fuck.' Oh shoot!"
Mom, it's so unfair. All of Gregory's things are hand-him-downs. They're all from Roderick.
- Q, May 2017
Looking at photos with my parents. April 2017.
Q: Awwwww. Why could I not time travel... and fix everything that's wrong with my hair.
The Kind of Reader I Am
I'm the kind of reader who starts a book and if she likes it, will choose reading it over most other things.
Why?
I want to learn as much as possible, is one reason.
The faster I can do that, the better.
I don't want to lose the story line.
In a way, I owe it to the book. Right?
Books I've started recently and couldn't stop til I was done:
One for the Murphys (Fall)
Olive Kitteredge (earlier this month)
This current book I'm on, How to Survive a Plague.
I just have to see what happens.
Why?
I want to learn as much as possible, is one reason.
The faster I can do that, the better.
I don't want to lose the story line.
In a way, I owe it to the book. Right?
Books I've started recently and couldn't stop til I was done:
One for the Murphys (Fall)
Olive Kitteredge (earlier this month)
This current book I'm on, How to Survive a Plague.
I just have to see what happens.
Saturday, April 15, 2017
Kid Quotes- Baseball
C: Did you win?
Q: Mmmm it's hard to say... I think we... won, or we losed... I'm not sure.
This was from when Q was 7.
This was from when Q was 7.
Holdcroft Kids Smart Book
At one point I was caring for my sister's kids. My brother-in-law left a manual so we'd know what to do. He's a pilot. I hear they are all about checklists!
Friday, April 14, 2017
Rats, and Stuff
It's such a horror show cleaning a house.
That feeling might have been compounded by discovering a dead rat (?) or something in the back yard where I was going to dump the water out of a junked little cooler that should have already been disposed of. A dead rat right near my kids' swingset. Just great.
I let out a little scream when I saw the animal (maybe it wasn't a rat- it was sort of plump- so maybe it was a possum?), which was kind of great because there were a couple guys next door who heard me. Kindly, they asked if it was a snake. I said, rat, they suggested a shovel, which I thought was pretty genius. I was picturing myself trying to scoop the carcass into a bag. Maybe instead I'll just bury the thing.
I've been reading about hoarding a bit, and I can see why it's common to accumulate so much crap. It is SO easy to buy stuff-- just click a few buttons!-- and so much harder to dispose of things. I guess that's why we should avoid buying things in the first place. Maybe I'll work on that.
That feeling might have been compounded by discovering a dead rat (?) or something in the back yard where I was going to dump the water out of a junked little cooler that should have already been disposed of. A dead rat right near my kids' swingset. Just great.
I let out a little scream when I saw the animal (maybe it wasn't a rat- it was sort of plump- so maybe it was a possum?), which was kind of great because there were a couple guys next door who heard me. Kindly, they asked if it was a snake. I said, rat, they suggested a shovel, which I thought was pretty genius. I was picturing myself trying to scoop the carcass into a bag. Maybe instead I'll just bury the thing.
I've been reading about hoarding a bit, and I can see why it's common to accumulate so much crap. It is SO easy to buy stuff-- just click a few buttons!-- and so much harder to dispose of things. I guess that's why we should avoid buying things in the first place. Maybe I'll work on that.
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