Sock it to me

Kyle and I are ALWAYS in a hurry, mainly because his sense of time is like my sense of direction, except worse. I can find my way around if a map’s handy, but Kyle apparently never learned how to tell time. I credit this deficiency to two factors: 1. He used to simultaneously play and [...]

Super clean

Tonight at Kyle’s softball game that wasn’t, all us wives were chatting, and the conversation veered toward dry-cleaning. This is where I tried to mentally check-out of the conversation, because my household’s idea of “dry-cleaning” is throwing clean but wrinkly clothes into the dryer, taking them out and then sort of waving them through the [...]

Kyle, Kyle makes me smile

Me: “Gee. I sure wish I could be a model,” while looking at The Limited flier showcasing a girl looking seductively professional in her too-tight suit. Yes, I do wish I could somehow look like that in a suit.Kyle, very matter-of-factly: “You are a model.”Kyle again: “You’re a model citizen.” Kyle’s doing some work. I [...]

Hey, hey stupid

I’m going to be writing here every single day for the next two weeks. Maybe longer. No, I don’t really have much of anything to say, except that just when you’re beginning to think that God dislikes you, that you’ve been shunned from his arms, and that you’re perhaps the most negative person in his [...]