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TWELVE Days of Christmas? Not On My Watch
Proper homemade gingerbread house that I had absolutely nothing to do with. Grandmothers are where it’s at. Good New Year to you, dear...
jdettmann
Jan 12, 20173 min read
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Olympics Para Siempre
We are disgraceful: this was one of only two photos we have of anyone in this family doing anything even vaguely athletic, while also not...
jdettmann
Aug 11, 20163 min read
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RUN NOW!
Baffling contraption As we are wont to do from time to time, H and I have started a small health kick. It’s not a high kick. We’re not...
jdettmann
Aug 2, 20164 min read
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In The End, It Was The Odd Socks That Finished Her Off
Garnet searching for his socks. We’ve been on a holiday. A driving holiday, and while I’ll try to write about that soon, and tell you all...
jdettmann
Jul 20, 20164 min read
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Some Enchanted Evening
Obviously this is not the beach we went to in this story. This is Waikiki beach, where I have also been grumpy in the recent past. I’m...
jdettmann
Nov 23, 20154 min read
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A Very Peter Pan Birthday
Three weeks out she started saying, ‘I don’t want to hear it’s anyone else’s birthday before mine.’ Now we’re down to four days and she...
jdettmann
Oct 19, 20154 min read
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How Funny? Pants-Off Funny
Benny Hill is a cultural reference that is on its last legs, I’d say. I only recall it vaguely from my childhood, mostly because it...
jdettmann
Apr 15, 20152 min read
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The Noise Was Coming From Inside The House
Last night H and I, for the first time in months, left the house together, at night, without May Blossom. When she was littler we used to...
jdettmann
Nov 16, 20113 min read
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