by Mary Carver | Aug 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
Last night, Annalyn told me my sock was pretty. More specifically, she said, “Sock,” petted my brown nylon covered foot, and said, “Pretty.”She also says “pretty” when I wear my blue t-shirt, when I brush her hair and when we put a bow in her hair.And when her daddy...
by Mary Carver | Aug 11, 2009 | Uncategorized
Most days when I leave for work, Annalyn waves her little hand and says in her sweet little voice, “Bye-bye!” Sometimes, if I’m lucky, I even get, “Bye-bye, Mommy!”Yesterday was not so smooth. As I got ready, proud that for once, I wasn’t running several minutes late...
by Mary Carver | Aug 10, 2009 | Uncategorized
When I was a senior in high school, I took College English. One of our early assignments in the fall was to define a word. We each drew a slip of paper from a bowl, and the word we saw was our writing prompt.The word I drew was “home.”As I worked to define that word,...
by Mary Carver | Aug 8, 2009 | Uncategorized
Last night, Mark and I took a cranky-pants toddler who is obsessed with “walk!” and “steps!” to a little birthday dinner. After watching several games of Pac-Man, cruising up and down the table, chewing on some cheese bread and spitting it out, and generally causing...
by Mary Carver | Aug 7, 2009 | Giving Up on Perfect, Home Life, recipes & food
Lately, Annalyn’s response to the question, “How does it taste?” is, “Nummy!” And that is exactly how this new treat should be described: “Nummy!” Maybe even, “Nummy in my tummy.” Then again, that might be silly. Several weeks ago, I signed up for Kraft...
