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How to Redeem Your Grocery Goof-Up
Twenty one cucumbers stare at me from the kitchen counter. One disappears and then there are twenty.
No, this isn’t the start of an obscure nursery rhyme designed to teach kids to count backwards.
It’s just the result of my online grocery shopping gone a wee bit wrong. Yeah, I’m not entirely sure how I ended up ...
I was “that” mom today…
Kids packed off to school.
Coffee down.
Time to unload the dishwasher.
It's then I see it. A mason jar. Not just any old mason jar - the jar that was supposed to hold the plant that Sonny boy was supposed to take with him to school on Monday morning.
Except today is Monday morning. And the jar is looking up ...
Mama’s Modus Operandi
Mama’s Panic
When you wake up in a sweat at 2:34 am and realize you're out of clean uniforms for the kids.
Mama’s 'I’ve-Had-It'
When you're late for an appointment and the kids decide to put on their shoes in slow motion.
Mama’s Answer to Almost Everything
Have you tried going potty?
Mama's Vocation
Deciding who started it, whose turn it is, ...
Installing India – Phase 1
It's been two months since we've moved back to India. And life has been very different. (I've heard that's what happens when you move across the globe).
Start with routine things like, taking a shower. In the US that meant: taking a shower. Here, things get a little more complicated!
Let's take this evening, for instance. The kids needed to ...
When Opposites Say, “I Do”
As the husband and I celebrate our tenth anniversary, I doled out wise words (ahem) on marriage on indiaanya.com.
The hubbers and I are as different as they come. Not like apples-and-oranges different, or even Mars-and-Venus different . . . More like, he’s from Mars and I’m an apple (well, more of a pear when it comes ...
Don’t focus on the Potatoes and Potholes
So we wanted to get here.
After selling our house and our cars at the perfect point in time. After getting our US citizenship and all our crazy complicated Indian paperwork sorted. But before the school year started. With admission in the school we chose although they'd closed admissions for the year. While living in an apartment ...
Saying Goodbye To Your First Home
In a few days we'll be moving to India. 8197 miles away from what we currently call home.
We're excited about new adventures. We feel like it's a God thing and a good thing for our family.
And yet, every morning, I wake up in a tangle of emotions. Before my eyes open and my thoughts focus, my ...
Stepping Out
I was shopping at Target last week when I ran into a 3-year-old I teach at Sunday School. (She was with her mom, people. This isn’t an article on free-range versus helicopter parenting.)
Anyway, the adorable thing looked up at me and said with wonder, “Teacher, I didn’t know you lived here!”
She wasn’t too far off ...
Cleanliness Is Next To Craziness
There's plenty to update my blog about, but for now I'll just have to say that my writing bug has been squished a little by a voluminous cleaning effort. We're getting ready to put our house on the market soon, so we're cleaning and organizing, painting and planting.
In other words, we're going bonkers.
Not a state ...
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