The other night around midnight, Edwin awoke as usual with a brief fussy noise which quickly escalated to a cry. I reached into the co-sleeper and the moment he felt his hands on me, he switched from his “I’m awake, come get me” cry to his “I want to eat” cry (which goes something like, […]
Life Is… A New Series
When I was in my senior year of high school, a good friend and I met for third period study hall every day to drink hot chocolate and talk about the meaning of life. (One might call this an odd form of senioritis.) Though I remember our conversations fondly, I don’t recall much of their […]
Making Weekend Plans
Despite the fact that I’ve moved away from strictly books in this blog, it wouldn’t be Words from the Sowul without a little homage to Laura Vanderkam now and then. I’ve had her latest mini e-book, What the Most Successful People Do on the Weekend, in my Kindle queue for a few weeks. It’s the […]
Plans For Snowdays
Blizzard Nemo kept me and my family stuck in our house for the past day or so, and I loved it. As teachers, my husband and I are good at the snow day thing. We plan ahead for a special breakfast (we actually keep “emergency bacon” in the fridge for this exact reason), we store […]
Universal Question
My dad and I have a special game we play when we’re on a road trip. I highly recommend it to liven up your next car ride, dinner party, or awkward family holiday. It’s called “universal question.” It works like this. One person comes up with a hypothetical question, preferably something juicy, and the other […]
Weathering the Weather
Mother Nature is laughing maniacally at those of us on the northeast coast right now. We went from bitter cold temperatures for days on end, to an ice storm, to a twenty degree thaw, to a further jump of twenty degrees combined with rain. And the weather fluctuation is set to continue over the next […]