QuirkyMom» General http://quirkymom.com Quirky Mom, Quirky Family Wed, 16 May 2012 23:33:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 My Apologies http://quirkymom.com/2012/05/10/my-apologies/ http://quirkymom.com/2012/05/10/my-apologies/#comments Thu, 10 May 2012 19:16:40 +0000 azxure http://quirkymom.com/?p=8240 I think I turned off all my notifications and emails but if not. I am so sorry if you get spammed from my blog!  I’m trying to bring back my old posts, as I have need of them, and my new posts got lost in the jumble, so I’m trying to put them back and it’s just a giant cluster…. yah. So I am really sorry if you get spammed, and I don’t mean to! From my end everything is shut off.

]]> http://quirkymom.com/2012/05/10/my-apologies/feed/ 0 Wow, I kind of dropped the ball on my plans http://quirkymom.com/2012/01/28/wow-i-kind-of-dropped-the-ball-on-my-plans/ http://quirkymom.com/2012/01/28/wow-i-kind-of-dropped-the-ball-on-my-plans/#comments Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:53:01 +0000 azxure http://quirkymom.com/?p=40 I haven’t stopped running this month! I know you know how it is. Whether your kids number zero or twelve, you probably don’t have time to stop and breathe, let alone inhale the lovely roses. This week I am going to try and set aside a half an hour a day to do just that. I don’t mean the half hour I spend reading and replying to emails or the half hour I spend in the carpool line (where I often read and respond to emails as well!) but a solid half hour where all I do is read something of my choice or maybe even nap! An uninterrupted half hour. Beautiful, if only it works out that way.

I have anywhere from one to two hours a day where I am alone, but I usually reserve them for catching up on work, cleaning, menu planning or something else for the “house” (read: not something selfish just for me). I’m all over this experiment, especially this week, because my next almost three months are full of booked-solid weekends. Kenahora! I get chills just thinking about it.

So, 30 minutes reading. Or gardening. Or drawing. Or something that is selfishly self-indulgent. What do you do that qualifies?

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It was kind of cleansing to put away so many memories. Births and Deaths. New friends and old. My “baby” is almost seven now. I kept a blog roughly from 2000 through 2011. I hadn’t posted a single thing yet this year and it was just calling out for me to start over.

So before I start down memory lane, I just wanted to say thanks for sticking with me and I hope my newest incarnation of this keeps your attention. I’m really hoping to have more art and less bitching this time around.

Yah, not exactly life-altering, but we all get there one step at a time.

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So I already ate most of my dinner, but… Tuna salad!!

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Mmm tuna!

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Realism by children is awesome

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This is what 10-5 @ Disney looks like.

This is what 10-5 @ Disney looks like.

This is what 10-5 @ Disney looks like.

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Shiva found a hidden Mickey!

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Is your (autistic) kid incapable of wearing flipflops? Because mine apparently is. Of course, he has trouble walking in normal shoes on a good day.

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Making beerbecue for tonight. Beer, ketchup, apple cider vin, chili powder, worcestershire, garlic and shallots. Might make another batch with some horseradish if I decide to grate my eyeballs later lol

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