Recipe for Lifelong Love and Craziness

Ingredients:

• 2 cups sugar (substitute for 2 cups snips for boy)
• 1 tsp spice (substitute 2 large snails for boy)
• 4 tbsp everything nice (substitute 1 4-inch puppy dog tail for boy)
• 1 year of patience (multiply by 18 depending on dependence level of final product)
• 6 months of undisturbed sleep
• 1 healthy adult diet
• 1 adult social life
• 1 clean house

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 98.6 degrees
2. Combine sugar, spice, and everything nice (or snips, snails, and puppy dog tails if boy is desired) into a large heart shaped bowl
3. Allow to rest for 4 weeks (if able 12 weeks is even better)
4. Fold patience into mixture
5. Mix in undisturbed sleep, paying close attention to attitude changes of mixture
6. Hollow out the center of the mixture (making a bowl shape) and add social life and healthy diet. 
7. Mix well - making sure to combine the ingredients completely and thoroughly.
8. Place mixture in a heat, cold, and emotional resistant dollar sign shaped cake pan.
9. Bake for 10 months - checking occasionally for proper development.
10. Remove from oven and install in your only guest room to rest.
11. Check your heart to see if it still exists inside your body. If created correctly it should now live in the guest room with your creation.
12. Provide proper nutrition, clothing, nurturing, and love but prepare for rejection and hardship.
13. Take lots of pictures and share your creation with your family, friends, and strangers.

Congratulations! Don't forget to show us how yours turned out by including a comment about how yours is better than everyone else's.

Hello and Welcome!

My dear readers,

I would like to take this opportunity to welcome you to my blog Between Dewey and Laundry. Within this space, you will find three pages dedicated specifically to different aspects of my life. These three pages include: 1) The Dewey--where I talk about everything related to the school library where I work and libraries in general, 2) The Laundry--where you will find me ranting about being a mom, wife, and homemaker (is that even a technical term?), and 3) The Middle--where I will be ranting about everything else not related to libraries or my family. 

I hope this blog brings you some sort of joy, comfort, or at least a little bit of amusement. Feel free to poke around and leave me a comment or two or even contact me if you feel so inclined. I look forward to having you here as long as you stay.


With love,
Felicia

Dear Daughter, You are My Strength

My sweet girl,

Tomorrow is the first day of my new job in a new town and it is also your first day full time at daycare. Both of these things are super big and exciting but for some reason, I can only focus on one of them. I want you to know that I never intended on you being in someone else's care for so many hours of our days. And as I lie in bed right now, snuggling you close and breathing you in, while you nap on our last day together I can feel the pressure and anxiety building inside me. There is so much to prepare for and do before tomorrow when our adventures begin. I should be grateful for these few moments to myself.

But the truth is I don't want to move.

I want to hold onto you tighter and feel your breath against my skin and the thumping of your little heart against my chest. I want to soak in all this love and warmth so when I walk into that daycare tomorrow and place you in your teacher's arms I can have something tangible, even if only a memory, to hold onto. I know I am going to be a blubbering mess-- I will probably even cry more than you. But I also know that this love we share between us will always give me the strength I need to do what I have to in order to make our lives better.

You are my purpose, my motivation, and all the strength I will ever need. I love you.


Love,

Mommy