Sep. 13, 2006
So Far, So Good..
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Mom's Night Out went off with only a minor hitch, I enjoyed my long day at the inn, wrote a great bio for my new venture, shocked my thirteen new writing students into awe and kept connected with my children in the process. The bathrooms aren't clean, but Lysol Wipes work wonders, and are easy to grab for 10 seconds of blitz. The kink in my armor, unfortunately, involves the intensity of personality that sneaks out towards Plays with Fire. He helped tremendously with the housekeeping portion of life, mainly chauffering, cooking and intervening the children's squabbles...truly my largest energy drain of all. Thankfully, our marriage bank account is full enough for a few rash withdrawals once in a while. Working at what one loves truly energizes. Despite the amount of dishes (!) tea for sixteen and breakfast for six creates, serving others luxury is a joy. For the most part, us middle-classers (though I'm told we're shrinking) appreciate all the little touches of beauty. I can imagine it would be difficult to offer ones heart on a platter or tea tray to uppity "this-isn't-good-enough for me and I'm going to sneer at your humble attempts to please me" kind of people, but as far as I could tell, we didn't run into any of those. The sixteen women we served tea to had the two of us judge parasols they had made (now that's an example of a sentence I wouldn't of allowed on my last blog!). Outside the inn, a riot of purple, lavendar, pink and red complemented the Victorian with its sea of fun. Time to make breakfast. |
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Sep. 19, 2006 - Untitled Comment
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Posted by Tracy-san