Revelry Reverie

All the other kids knew when to run. No one told Grant.

We took a walk on Treasure Island yesterday evening after dinner. It was pretty windy, and everyone was a little crabby after a long day. We all sort of noticed that a flock of sea birds was hovering overhead. Right overhead. About 4 feet over our heads. We were all looking up and admiring how…

This is what parenting feels like.

The beach!

We left for vacation yesterday, leaving the house around 3:30pm. I spend the entire day doing laundry, cleaning, and packing us all up, and we all know how I feel about cleaning and laundry (bad). But! Vacation! It took us about an hour and fifteen minutes to get to the airport, which is just about…

I learn from all my kids – quite often things about myself (some things fairly unflattering), and other times things about life. The Ringlets are all the same and all different, in the way of people raised together, and Grant (5) in particular is by nature a political animal. He wants to meet people, and…

I really love hair day. Eleanor went with me for her appointment, and I heard nothing but solid gold from her. Two stand outs: I overheard her ask the salon dog, “did I disrespect you in some way?” And while we were all chatting later about the dog, she described playing tug of war with…

I had a very audible reaction when I saw this situation while spring cleaning yesterday. There was swearing and panic! Now that the initial disgust has been managed, it is interesting to see how the grate pattern changes depending on where the voids appear to be. I prefer it clean. Time to order a new…

Well I can bring the potatoes to order.

At work, we’re grappling with some big questions around what experiences we want to focus on in the near-term for Tumblr, what sorts of things we are going to set aside temporarily, and what we won’t work on at all. Something I keep coming back to (we all are posing this question over and over,…