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I'm so happy for you, Jamie. Congratulations! :)
Commented Feb 18, 2013 on Yldalg Rosseforp at Light and Momentary
Yldalg Rosseforp
My chair emailed me today to ask if we could arrange a time to talk this weekend. I didn't know what to make of it. You guys, my brain has been a bad place lately. I had pretty much persuaded myself that they didn't want me. Maybe their first-choice candidate would turn them down, and I would ha...
Praying for you. :)
Commented Jan 14, 2013 on Locus of control at Light and Momentary
Locus of control
I've been discombobulated. Yesterday at dinner one of the boys asked me why I had just sighed, and I said, "I just realized that there is not a single room downstairs that's not in disarray." (Elwood pointed out that nothing had changed in the bathroom, but somehow this felt like cold comfort.")...
I love that you have so many books. There are times, at our house, where all I do is move piles of books around.
Commented Jan 10, 2013 on Dept. of First World Problems at Light and Momentary
Dept. of First World Problems
So I called the guy who is renovating the Previously Horrible Office, and he said a bad word. He said, "Wednesday." I had never thought of Wednesday as a bad word before. However. Exhibit A: the dining room. Underneath those stacks of books there is a dining room table. Now I understand that i...
Jamie, this is so cool! Thanks so much for sharing these stories. :)
Commented Dec 26, 2012 on Gifts at Light and Momentary
Gifts
1. When our oldest son was almost 3, he taught us something about Christmas gifts that we still appreciate. We gave him a set of Duplos that year, and when he opened them he wanted to play with them...and play, and play, and play. I tried to interest him in opening another box, but Elwood said, ...
Thanks so much for posting the link to the "ripeness" post: it is so loving and beautiful. (Now I want to learn to play, "Axis and Allies"! :))
Commented Nov 5, 2012 on Untitled at Light and Momentary
Untitled
I'm glad you guys enjoyed my whiskey-fueled post from last night. :-) I re-published a really old post from my first blog that tells more of the story. We didn't start dating right after Casablanca. We did a lot of fun stuff together that first fall, almost always in groups. Elwood loves to get ...
I thought you were cool in 1987, and I still think you're cool now. :)
Commented Nov 4, 2012 on This post brought to you by the Laphroaig distillery at Light and Momentary
This post brought to you by the Laphroaig distillery
Elwood and I went on a Date tonight. Perhaps in another season of our lives this would not have qualified as a capital-D Date, but when you have five kids you take what you can get. We saw Casablanca at our neighborhood theatre, and then we went for a drink at the bar down the street. The barten...
This is one of my most favorite posts, ever!
Commented Apr 18, 2012 on Words with Spouses at Light and Momentary
Words with Spouses
My husband loves to beat me at Scrabble. If you ask him, he will say that he just loves to play Scrabble, but I know his secret heart and in that secret heart he loves nothing better than for me to play a 400-point game of Scrabble in which he just happens to score 425 points. "Good game," he wi...
You are a treasure! I so enjoy your blog.
I ponder your points a great deal now that I am a dad, and I am curious as to what strengths and weaknesses my son will have.
My wish for him is that he will have an better time in school than I had, but I also think that these experiences significantly shaped me, and hopefully made me more sensitive.
Commented Aug 25, 2010 on Fitting In at Light and Momentary
Fitting In
I never fit in when I was in school. I had crazy red hair and thick glasses. We moved around a lot, so that between first and seventh grade I went to six different schools. And the trouble with being a kid who liked to read about offbeat things was never knowing what was offbeat. Sometimes I wou...
did you know Morgan S. in high school?
Commented Jun 30, 2010 on The Vegetable Project at Light and Momentary
The Vegetable Project
Item: I just finished Morgan Spurlock's Don't Eat This Book, which is full of stories about his "Super Size Me" adventure and the latest antics of Big Food. Item: I have twenty pounds (eek) of pregnancy weight to lose. Ergo: the Vegetable Project. For the month of June, I'm going to eat fiv...
You are a gifted writer; consequently, no matter the topic, I checking your ongoing blog. Meanwhile, we are expecting kid#1 next month, so I may be seeking your advice / opinions in the near future.
Commented Jun 20, 2010 on Floundering at Light and Momentary
Floundering
So you guys, I am having a little bloggy identity crisis. My tagline is something like "five kids, one dissertation, and the bootless battle against entropy," but there is no more dissertation. I always felt a little guilty posting about the dissertation, because did you care about the cool new ...
This is totally my favorite comment entry. (Over here, we're into math, and I wish I were more handy, but we try hard.)
Commented Feb 15, 2010 on Seven Quick Takes: Piecemeal Edition at Light and Momentary
Seven Quick Takes: Piecemeal Edition
My 10yo had a big project due today, and we were working until bedtime last night to get all the parts and pieces printed out and presented neatly. When we finished, he sighed with relief. He said, "Mom, have you ever had a big project and a deadline and you weren't sure if you could get it fin...
This is an inspiration to literature-lovers! Please also do a post on your annual Shakespeare reading: I may do a similar project.
Commented Jan 4, 2010 on Want to read all of Charles Dickens' novels? at Light and Momentary
Want to read all of Charles Dickens' novels?
Full disclosure: I am not exactly qualified to write this post. I have one novel to go*. But here's how this post came about: at the end of 1999 I was thinking things over. Y2K was rapidly approaching, and I was going to turn 30 that year. We'd only had an internet connection in our home since t...
I find you inspirational.
Commented Oct 30, 2009 on Waving Wanly at Light and Momentary
Waving Wanly
Hello out there. I am still here but feeling somewhat bedraggled. It's been dreary dreary DREARY here during a time of year that always gets me down anyway. Yesterday I was looking at online classifieds and saw a job advertised in New Zealand. Wouldn't it be nice to see things peeking up out of ...
No matter what name you use, I always enjoy your writing.
Commented May 4, 2009 on Like the Pine Tree at Light and Momentary
Like the Pine Tree
Excuse the cheesy Jim Croce reference. The purpose of this post is to say that I'm giving up the CJ pseudonym. My name is Jamie. Almost five years ago I started a different blog, where I poured out more of my heart than I do here. My kids were younger and I wrote more about them and their escapa...
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