InsomniMom

Big world.

Little sleep.

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Keep it to yourself, sonny boy

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My office-away-from-home is the Paradise Bakery and Cafe at Hamilton Town Center on the Noblesville/Fishers border. I can be found there sev...
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Sunday, December 4, 2011

RED ALERT! (How to make your house presentable for unexpected guests)

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My high-school friend Cathy had a very clever mother. Mrs. Watt designed a system for doing an inst-tidy on the house in the event of unexpe...

Why I have a splitting headache

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I woke up in the middle of the night last night and couldn't go back to sleep because that's just what I do , and a maddening thing ...
Tuesday, November 29, 2011

How was that again?

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I was driving Aisling to her piano lesson today and she spent most of the twenty minute ride telling me about a boy she likes and bewailing ...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

12 things I always buy at Dollar Tree

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Dollar Tree is, like, one of my favorite stores ever. Barnes & Noble is a strong contender; Ulta Beauty is definitely in the running. I ...
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Monday, November 21, 2011

Signs that the Apocalypse is Upon Us

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Today I was at the laundromat washing the duvet from our bed and an absolutely riveting episode of Matlock was playing at high volume on eve...
Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Because I'm weak

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I don't think it speaks well for my character that I blow right past the dry cleaning establishment that's four blocks from my house...
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Friday, November 11, 2011

The Creature from the Madge Lagoon

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You just knew it wasn't all over with Madge, didn't you? I scared her off the other day with my Teacher Look, but she must have been...
Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Because Wonder Woman is for realz, and she is me

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Today I got home from Fishers at ten minutes 'til noon. I had exactly one hour before I had to be in yoga class at the YMCA, making my b...
Monday, November 7, 2011

Reprise and Reprisals: Madge-at-the-swimming-pool

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I'm kind of proud of that title. I flatter myself that it sounds like something Jane Austen might have come up with. Er, something with ...
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Sunday, November 6, 2011

Lies your friends will tell you

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I have a confession to make. I have been known to speak in encouraging tones of bright confidence to my friends who have small chirren, tell...
Tuesday, October 18, 2011

What's that you're cooking?

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When I find recipes I like on the internet , I generally scrawl them down on a piece of scrap paper, using whatever writing tool comes to ha...
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I'm a happy Catholic; a wife; a homeschooling mother of one teenage daughter and one college-aged daughter; a writer; enthusiastic crafter of countdown paper chains; a Buffy fan, a reader; a Shakespeare teacher; a literature teacher; a composition teacher; a former soap-maker; a minivan driver; an inward grump; an outward sweetie-pie; a history geek; a dog lover; a rehabilitated and repentant former thief of bandwidth; a killer of plants; a soft-hearted taker-in of strays; a reformed housekeeper; an insomniac
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