Little Kite Girl

My life, one year ago. Is is possible I was like…15 years younger then?

Yesterday was interesting. I got up…got ready for work. I made a decision to lay off the imodium. Mostly because I hadn’t gone to the bathroom in…over a week. I started to feel some familiar pain and realised that I needed to at the very least slow the pills down to [...]

John Milton wrote this about his blindness, but lines of it have also been running through my head lately as I’ve struggled to perform my daily functions.
When I consider how my light is spent
Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,
And that one Talent which is death to hide
Lodged with [...]

As I got out of the shower this morning and looked in the mirror, this poem came into my mind.  It’s called Pied Beauty by Gerard Hopkins…and for some reason reminds me of being pregnant.  Haha.  I’m not sure why, unless dappled means less spotty and more dimply.  Let’s just call it cherubic, shall we?

GLORY [...]

In response to Kate on John and Kate Plus 8 calling her daughter’s pottery “real art:”
John: That is not, and never will be, real art.
Me: Just wait until your son makes something.
John: I’ll tell him I like it, I guess. I just won’t mean it.
Mom: Yeah- I still have that painting of a banana [...]

So, I didn’t make it all the way through work today.  I got through til about 1…but I was hurting so badly I ended up calling my Mom, coming home, and going to sleep for a couple of hours.  It was a slow day at work, though, and so I was able to get everything [...]

I managed to make it to church today.  At least the first meeting, anyway.  Jonathan came It makes me happy when he shows up.  He took me home after the first meeting and said, “Did you drink your orange juice?”  Apparently my Mother told him to make sure I had some when I got [...]

My Mom flew in Thursday to help take care of me We didn’t do much that day- just napped and had some food, ran to WalMart. She decided that I am too amazingly pale and that I need to eat red meat. Every day. That is difficult for a girl who [...]

Today was another long day.  Work…lots of thinking about how to be more productive and help others to be more productive…putting out small fires…reporting the big ones.  You know, one of those days.  I also took less medicine today to see if the new pill the doctor gave me did anything.  I was okish, until [...]

My favorite news of today: my Mom is coming!  She flies in on Thursday.  Who knows how long she’ll stay, or what we’ll do, or even where she’ll sleep- SHE’S COMING And when she texted me with the news I almost cried from relief.  Sometimes a girl just needs her Mom.  Not that John [...]