http://caramcduna.com Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:14:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "Nora! Come look at the frost on your window!" (pause) "Is it frosting??" "No. Frost. Because it's so cold." "Because it's so cold??" "Yes. And the sun will melt it later today." "The sun will melt it??" "Yes." (pause) "And then we can eat it?" "No. It's not frosting. It's frost." "Oh." (pause) "Mommy." "Yes." "Is it frosting?" http://caramcduna.com/2012/01/19/sweet-tooth-understatement/ I could go on - for paragraphs or hours - on the afternoons I spend with my children. After I pick Nora up from school and the three of us retreat to the cozy confines of our little house while I start getting dinner ready. Maybe Nora watches a show ... http://caramcduna.com/2012/01/12/s-i-s-t-e-r/ http://caramcduna.com/2012/01/10/finger-foods-redux/ Back when I was meeting with the life coach, he had me write up a list of goals that he told me to put up in my home office space, so I would always be reminded of the things I wanted to accomplish. He suggested I put professional goals as ... http://caramcduna.com/2011/12/07/ernest-i-am-starting-to-resent-you/ Our mornings can go one of two ways. Before this fall, our mornings were almost always a source of calm during what were otherwise frantic days. Coffee. The news. Everybody content. Once Nora started school, though - J takes her every morning - things changed. On good days mornings are ... http://caramcduna.com/2011/12/05/on-having-a-boy/ "I went totally crazy on Etsy this morning!" "That's the gayest thing you've ever said." "Etsy's not gay. I was looking up knives, and - " "GAYEST THING YOU'VE EVER SAID." http://caramcduna.com/2011/11/27/let-the-christmas-shopping-begin/ I've been thinking a lot lately about karma and how "what goes around comes around." And also about emotional detachment and being zen. Because I was a philosophy minor? No. Because of potty training and nap times and tragically mundane stuff like that. But still. You can get lofty. A ... http://caramcduna.com/2011/11/15/payback/ http://caramcduna.com/2011/11/14/sunday-morning/ Awesome, awesome jeans, that cost a decent amount of money, I want you back (on my body). Current running/workout mix. And, no, I'm not sick of "Gold Digger." (Memories, Karla.) Holler we want PRE-NUP, yeaaaaahhh. "Close To Me"/The Cure "I Gotta Feeling"/Black Eyed Peas "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa"/Vampire Weekend "O.P.P."/Naughty By Nature "The Twist"/Frightened ... http://caramcduna.com/2011/11/07/post-baby-nothing-better-to-do-in-this-economy-fitness-boom/ Yesterday morning I was washing dishes when one of Nora's plastic cups - the little ones I got at Target, decorated with monkeys hanging from trees - lodged itself in the drain. I was cleaning up after Halloween festivities at our house, and although the job was totally manageable, there ... http://caramcduna.com/2011/11/02/for-ronnie/