Quirky Quips & Sewing Snips
Round Two has started in Leesa’s Battle of the Blogs. The competition is stomping the heck out of me. Go vote! Okay, don’t go vote. It really doesn’t matter because I know you all love me, or you wouldn’t leave so many lovely comments. Izzy Update: He quit. Too much [...]
The Grownups Wanted Us Dead, but sometimes we could out smart them: >My friend Charlotte’s dog had puppies. They were the cutest little Beagle babies ever born. I wanted one. Gram said, “No!” It was her firm, under no uncertain terms, no. The one there is really no point in [...]
Sometimes the grownups who wanted us dead weren’t even alive themselves: One afternoon as we were heading home from the library, Cheerleader’s front bike tire picked up a nail. We dropped her bike off at a friend’s house, she climbed on my handlebars and we continued on our way. As [...]
The Izzy Inch — it’s a style of walking. Izzy’s style. Izzy is an eleven year-old boy who could give a snail lessons in slow. Somehow — through my own busy-ness and distraction, Izzy became line leader for the month. It happened that I had a ton of paperwork due [...]
Yesterday I worked most of the day under the delusion that it was Friday. As you might imagine, that has dimmed my joy in coming to work today. The current classroom book count cheered me some: 218 — and they’re still coming in. We have until 3:00 this afternoon. Yesterday [...]