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May 2016

May 27, 2016

7 Lazing About Takes

One Today we will have to go remedy the need of a swimsuit for the...

May 26, 2016

Notes from the Depths of my Duvet

Well, here we are again then, spreading all our stuff all over a bright, cheerfully...

May 25, 2016

Notes from the Road

Well, we haven't perished. So there's that. And the children are their usual fractious selves....

May 24, 2016

The Road Rolls on Forever

Too tired to have words. About to hand out bucket of donuts to children. Surprisingly...

May 23, 2016

Things I Did While Madly Shoving Things In The Car

Technically this should be a Listicle, but the sanity of a list was lost hours...

May 17, 2016

Moral Decadence, Goop, and the Packing of a Suitcase

I try to vary my podcast listening between the serious minded, the edifying, and the...

May 16, 2016

Bits and Pieces

Boy have I got a lot to do today. That's true every day, but on...

May 09, 2016

Bits and Pieces

It is a bright sunny morning, and the hillside is almost completely covered with green....

May 06, 2016

A Case for Getting Rid of Mother’s Day

Facebook has been busily reminding me that Mother's Day is in three days--not soon enough...

May 05, 2016

Why Am I Still Homeschooling

I am trying desperately to properly wrap up my school year and not just putter...

May 03, 2016

The Discipline of Eating Bread

Mondays have turned into Matt slewing flour here and there in a sort of a...

April 2016

April 29, 2016

7QT: Hatmaker, Coffee, Death and a Chat

Being of tired mind and limping body, I'm going to fling around some quick takes...

April 28, 2016

Letting Wisdom Prevail

I have the mind of a squirrel this morning--unable to settle on anything, only flitting...

April 26, 2016

Helpful Advice for the Dentist and the Preacher

It was fitting that I had to go to the dentist yesterday, being in the...

April 25, 2016

Death in Easter

Easter, in the Anglican way, lasts for seven weeks--longer than Lent, longer than you think...

April 22, 2016

7QT: Virtue Signaling My Happiness Edition

One On Friday mornings the boys and Matt go to men's bible study, leaving me...

April 20, 2016

Confessions of the Worst Mother Ever

"I'm fine with you being a little bored," I said to my youngest child last...

April 19, 2016

Five Reasons to be Grateful on NYS Primary Day

The New York State primary is today and I am super duper excited to finally...

April 15, 2016

7QT: Bread, Birthday, Trump & Kylo Ren

Time for some quick takes, in the spirit of there being bits and pieces but...

April 13, 2016

In Which I Eat a Piece of Bread

The practical consequence of my funeral meltdown was that Matt got on Amazon and ordered...

April 11, 2016

In Which I Lock Myself Out of the House

We all went to church yesterday, neglecting, absurdly, to bring any house keys along with...

April 07, 2016

Politics, Pekoe, and the Second Decade

A long while ago, seemingly years before I had reached the end of what Leila...

April 01, 2016

You Can’t Have Everything, Where Will You Put It?

Ah, the sweet sound of children bitterly recriminating each other over April Fool pranks gone...

March 2016

March 30, 2016

Lamentation in the Laundry

Speaking of not being minimalist, as I was yesterday (speaking of, I mean), today I'm...

March 29, 2016

Don’t Throw Everything Away

I'm sure I ought, for the sake of posterity or someone, to do a full...

March 28, 2016

He is Risen, We are Sleeping

March 25, 2016

The Cheerful Offender

My pending box is as full of ugly comments as my house is full of...

March 24, 2016

Snapshots of Holy Week

The Liturgical week is off to a clanging start. My loud noise at Tenebrae could,...

March 18, 2016

My Neighbor, My Enemy

I've been struggling (remember, Christian word for failure) with rage this week, not over politics...

March 17, 2016

The Death of Advice

It's not Friday is it? I was kind of hoping it was, but, as I...