Fr. Pickwick, opening our refrigerator with dismay: “There are so many vegetables in here that there is no room for the food!” Mrs. Pickwick: “The vegetables are the food.” Fr P: “Vegetables are not food. Vegetables are what food eats.”
Something happens when I walk out of my front door. I immediately feel transported to an alternate reality, where nothing on my list (which seemed perfectly normal inside my house) is attainable by any human efforts whatsoever. Time also ceases to exist in any kind of earthly sense and I can only plead that when… Continue reading The Pickwicks Go Forth in Pursuit of Updated Driver’s Licenses
After turning our world, and therefore our household accounts, upside down more than once over the past few months, it was time to pick up the pieces and put the Pickwicks back in order, at least on paper. I therefore present a completely objective and unembellished excerpt from the minutes of the most recent business… Continue reading In Which the Pickwicks Discuss Finances and Remain Happily Married Nonetheless
With my very first overseas trip looming ahead, I have carefully crafted a list. Lists are so soothing. Everything looks better and much more accomplishable on a list. To Do Balance the Pickwickian finances and put our household budget in order after the chaos of moving, getting a job (like the kind where one is… Continue reading Mrs. Pickwick Makes a List
Continued from Mrs. Pickwick Gets a Passport With successful passport photos under my belt (actually, safely tucked in the glove compartment- no way I was going to risk bringing them into our house to be lost!), I set out to tackle the actual application with my very next free moment. So about a month later.… Continue reading Mrs. Pickwick Gets a Passport, Part the Second
If you offer to hold the baby for five minutes so a first-time mom can go to the bathroom, you will still be holding the baby an hour later because she fell asleep on the way there. If you offer to hold the baby for five minutes for a mother of two, you will still be… Continue reading If You Give a Mom 5 Minutes…
