Tagged: karinbean

19
Feb
2009

OVERSIZED BITS OF TID, WITH SNOW & HOMICIDAL MANIA

It’s snowing like crazy outside. Fat white fluff-flakes floating dreamily down, down and around in the white light of the streetlights. The street is filled up with snow. Clifford the Big Red Rock has a sparkly white skullcap. The plants are hunkered down, puffed up with the white stuff. We’ve had snow on the ground for almost 2 weeks now, though really it hasn’t been that much; it keeps melting down to a thin covering and then freezing. All the footprints in the yard: kid, dog, neighbor’s cat, are softening at the edges and filling in. They’ll have to stomp...

22
Jan
2009

I HAB A CODE ID BY DOSE

Karin was sick over the weekend, running a fever, complaining of a sore throat and being generally draggy. She stayed home from school Monday, with my chaperonage to make sure that she didn’t play games all day as sick kids who stay home from work DO NOT GET TO HAVE FUN. She was allowed to watch TV and DVDs and otherwise she could lie on the sofa and sleep or lie in her bed and sleep or lie in OUR bed and sleep. I worked the entire day, while she slept and watched and moaned about how boring it was...

15
Dec
2008

O! HOW I KNEAD YOU!

I still have the 2 batches of sugar cookie dough in the fridge, as we ran out of time this weekend. They take the longest of all the cookies to do, what with the rolling and cutting and patching and baking and swabbing with sugar glaze and decorating with red hots and colored sugars and dragees and sprinkles and nonpareils. We’ll do them this coming weekend, most probably, along with watching The Grinch. So, because I had limited time possibilities this evening, I whipped up a batch of green Holiday Balls instead and undercooked them on purpose and they were...

06
Nov
2008

THANK YOU LETTERS

One of things my mom managed to instill in me while I was growing up was the necessity of writing thank you letters. If I had been a guest at someone’s home or received a gift from someone, it was good manners and a courtesy to respond to it with a written thank you note. Writing cards or letters at all seems to be gradually becoming a lost art, which is a shame since getting “real” mail in the post is one of the nicest ways to make someone’s day. Over the years I’ve gotten several surprised and grateful thank...

15
Sep
2008

SLAVE OF THE GOLDEN CAP

Not too long ago, Marilyn linked to a really cool site that allows you to make word maps of text that you upload or that exists on a website: Wordle. So, of course, I popped this journal’s URL into the engine and came up with something that surprised me, though it shouldn’t have. The 2 most frequently used words on this here journal, on that day*, were Liz (no surprise there, perhaps) and KARIN. Her name was many times larger than both Anders’ and Martin’s and it took me a bit aback for a moment, and then I laughed since...

25
Aug
2008

BOGGLING & GIGGLING

Anders left for Italy yesterday and while in transit on the Munich airport runway, one of the wheels of his plane starting SHOOTING FLAMES out that actually began LICKING UP THE SIDE OF THE AIRCRAFT. *commence minor it-was-over-before-i-heard-about-it freakout* Coming as this did so soon after the airline tragedy in Madrid, I was more than a little concerned when he called to tell me he wasn’t yet at his destination and was, in fact, waiting in Munich airport for more news on what to do next, considering he had left the plane without any of his possessions except his mobile...

13
Jul
2008

NINE BY THE NUMBERS

25 invitations printed, address, delivered and mailed 19 phone calls and messages responding in the affirmative 2 weeks of anticipation 2 trips to the grocery store 2 cakes baked, frosted and decorated 1 early morning birthday wake-up with presents and hugs and bed-head 19 bags filled with candy 1 sick kid calling with regrets 18 children swirling around the house and yard 17 presents opened and exclaimed over 28 hamburgers grilled and eaten 1 role-playing game involving 6 teams, over-sized dice, strength & wisdom cards, 2 manned stations, 4 unmanned stations, a final battle and prizes for the winners 1...

21
May
2008

BUSTED

Liz: Good night! Karin: Good night! Liz: Sleep tight! Karin: Sleep tight! Liz: See you in the morning! Karin: See you in the morning! Liz: Olive oil! Karin: I lo—*pause* Liz: No? Oil of Olay? Karin: *rolls eyes* Liz: Hmmm…what was it again? Eulalia! Karin: *patiently* No, mama Liz: Oilily? Karin: *suspiciously* Are you doing this just so you’ll have something to write about on your journal? Liz: *giggles madly*

10
May
2008

PRIZE WINNER

Karin competed in her first karate competition today. She was in the 8-year-old girl’s group, competing in kata, which is a short, choreographed series of karate moves. She was pretty nervous about it, but thought it was a lot of fun, and she came in 3rd place! Not too shabby! 🙂 She got a huge 3rd place trophy along with her participant medal and a new t-shirt. Read Karin’s summary of her accomplishment.

09
May
2008

THIS JUST IN

Does jetlag get worse as you get older? Or is it just my crazy life that has eaten away the foundation of my stability and left me unable to balance evenly? Nearly a week since my return and I’m still waking up at 4 a.m. every morning…of course that could be the fault of the BRIGHT SUNLIGHT streaming in at an ungodly hour and the fact that still, after nearly 6 years in this house, the windows in our bedroom remain shade- and blind-less. Wednesday was choir (first practice in 4 weeks—croak!) and yesterday my husband celebrated a birthday. It’s...

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