I am leaving again. Part of my farewell tour… farewell to 6 weeks of no school, farewell to the hermit I have become (until school starts again, but for now it makes sense). This weekend, I head up north to chill with a dear friend who will feed me and half my kids and let me steal her towels. That’s a good friend Speaking of driving long distance with your children who must potty every 20 minutes, I got a new GPS. I will never be lost again, no matter how hard I try. Unless it runs...
Today is a huge day, for DC, for the US, and for the world. I woke up to the sounds of crowds of people (on the news, of course) rushing to the Metro, in anticipation of today’s grand events… for a fleeting glimpse of our new President. In one romantic moment, I thought, “Yes, I CAN!” and then I realized that no way in hell would I brave that crowd, the temperature, the insanity for the opportunity to say “I was there.” I will happily watch the events on CNN like...
You wake up for the last time in a plush bed, where you’ve spent many nights… er… thinking. You put on your slippers and feather-trimmed pink robe and you stumble into the bathroom, mascara running down your face and lipstick smeared from ear to ear. You turn toward the bed as you hear the grumblings of another person. Oh. Crap. What have I done this time? You shake your head and crawl into the shower, after your bathroom valet hands you a bottle of water and some advil. Yes, it...
I’m in hiding, still. Mercury – gaah. I’m leaving town, so I can drive back on Sunday through, you guessed it, Inaugural traffic. There haven’t been anymore good updates, except that our school district thought it best to move their teacher workday to the 20th for the Inauguration, thus gracing us with a 4 day weekend. We are not even in a county that is NEXT to DC, and the one county between us and DC isn’t rolling up their scholastic sidewalks for Obamapalooza. I’m...
