“A weekly, or as close as I can get to weekly, ritual (who am I kidding that I think I can do this every week). Some photos – with or without tons of explanation – capturing a moment from the week.
A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. A moment that makes me remember why exactly it is that I can’t have nice things (but someday will).”
**A twisted step-cousin twice-removed of www.soulemama.com‘s {this moment}.
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Hi! This is my new electric pencil sharpener, a fun new back-to-school “gift” I recently bought for my kids. (manual sharpeners are sooo 1st grade.)
She's a beauty, ain't she?
As you might see if you’ve got an eye for these sort of things, It’s an X-ACTO brand. It’s also missing the shaving receptacle cover (3 days into ownership–not bad). The other morning, I walked into the kitchen, froze, and then gasped with horror. There, there at the breakfast table was one of my older kids gently guiding my 3-year-old’s fingertip into the sharpening tube (or whatever the hell it’s called).
X-ACTLY where it should not be.
No fingers were lost/maimed in the making of this post, but I see a Group W Bench in one of these kids’ future.
The author re-enacting the events of the breakfast incident.
oh. my.
We had a great time sitting on the bench filling out the forms and PLAYING WITH THE PENCILS.
“…then they allll moved away from me there on the Group W bench…”