A writer's notes on family
After a few months of working with an incredibly talented designer named Maeve Norton, I’m delighted to reveal the cover for The Cat, The Cash, the Leap & the List!
Details on when you’ll actually be able to buy the book are coming soon!
Oh! You guys!
I’m DELIGHTED to have a piece up on Mamalode today. It’s for their July “Dive in” theme.
I think you’ll like it. I’m in my bathing suit making an ass of myself.
OR AM I?
(If you like it, please share.)
“Mommy, do you have any string?”
“I’m sure I do, what kind of string?”
“Um, like yarn. Fat yarn.”
“Yes, I have that. Why don’t you grab your blue yarn, it’s in your room.”
“Well, I want to use that only for finger knitting only.”
“Well, what do you want this yarn for?”
“For wrapping around my toes.”
Remember that? I can remember taking a piece of string and wrapping it methodically around my finger until the tip turned purple. And being warned repeatedly by my mother and father of the folly of this. I even remember tears and panic at not being able to get the string off fast enough when my finger started to hurt.
“Why do you want to do that?” I ask casually, because I can’t for the life of me remember why I did it.
“Because it’s fun.”
“Well, it’s really not good for your body. You could really hurt your toe or your finger by wrapping string or yarn around it.”
I say this, and I know it won’t matter. I’ll find her, sometime soon, wrapping a string too tightly around one of her tiny appendages.
Because this is what kids do.
You know how kids get really exhausted by a new routine? They start a new school and it just wipes them out for a few weeks until they adjust?
Turns out, it can happen to parents, too. I am exhausted this week and this blog has paid the price.
We’ll spend this weekend relaxing at the beach. I’ll return next week imbued with negative ions (which are a good thing) and stories of my parent council activities at Nora’s school.
See you soon.
I’m guest posting at klz’s place today, on account of her husband has meningitis and I know her pain. Please head on over.
This is my nephew, name yet to be determined (actually, name to be re-determined). He was born on Friday morning. 7lbs, 8 oz. 18 inches.
My sister is doing well after a c-section. Dad and big brother are proud as punch.
I will be traveling to Minnesota on Thursday to see him. Expect auntie-pride posts in the week to come.