Comments on: Quiet before the storm (+ another sonnet) https://lauravanderkam.com/2024/11/quiet-before-the-storm-another-sonnet/ Writer, Author, Speaker Tue, 19 Nov 2024 13:02:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Laura Vanderkam https://lauravanderkam.com/2024/11/quiet-before-the-storm-another-sonnet/#comment-541014 Tue, 19 Nov 2024 13:02:12 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=19807#comment-541014 In reply to Lori C.

@Lori C – perhaps a collection! We shall see 😉

]]> By: Lori C https://lauravanderkam.com/2024/11/quiet-before-the-storm-another-sonnet/#comment-540621 Mon, 18 Nov 2024 23:50:11 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=19807#comment-540621 Love the sonnet and I’m anxiously awaiting perhaps a collection of sonnets in a future book? Hint hint? They are so lovely you really do a lovely job of conveying the seasons.

]]> By: Yukun Wu https://lauravanderkam.com/2024/11/quiet-before-the-storm-another-sonnet/#comment-540560 Mon, 18 Nov 2024 21:37:56 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=19807#comment-540560 I can see that you are referring to December as the month that is about to hit like a big storm, Ms. Laura Vanderkam. I wonder if the time comes when all 5 of your sons and daughters are either in high school or beyond, the December of each year will still act like a big storm. In other words, I basically wonder if it is all of these things that you’ll need to do for your sons and daughters in December that make December burdensome and hence make December act like a big storm, Ms. Laura Vanderkam.
I have now done reading the sonnet “Past Peak”. If I see you include a sonnet in a blog post that you write, Ms. Laura Vanderkam, I will usually choose to comment on that blog post.

]]> By: Laura Vanderkam https://lauravanderkam.com/2024/11/quiet-before-the-storm-another-sonnet/#comment-540533 Mon, 18 Nov 2024 19:49:11 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=19807#comment-540533 In reply to Elisa.

@Elisa – the 4-year-old was so upset he didn’t get to go (PG 13) but it sounds like he didn’t miss all that much….And we’re promising him Moana 2 soon…

]]> By: Laura Vanderkam https://lauravanderkam.com/2024/11/quiet-before-the-storm-another-sonnet/#comment-540532 Mon, 18 Nov 2024 19:48:30 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=19807#comment-540532 In reply to Coree.

@Coree- Christmas markets! Those are on my list of things to do sometime. We did spend a few days after Christmas in Germany in 2008, but my crew kept trying to go to other things and we’d miss the Christmas market hours. Maybe I’ll go back on my own! And see the Christmas Oratorio in Leipzig or something…

]]> By: Coree https://lauravanderkam.com/2024/11/quiet-before-the-storm-another-sonnet/#comment-540509 Mon, 18 Nov 2024 17:18:48 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=19807#comment-540509 My in-laws are up for an early Christmas – 2nd weekend in December, and phew… I did not fully understand how that would screw with my timing. We spend Christmas abroad, so will open presents on the early Christmas celebration, and then I head to Berlin for a conference (and erm… Christmas markets), get home, go to a local conference, and then we fly to my parents’. Feeling slightly anxious but we’re forgoing adult presents this year, and doing a pretty minimalist secondhand/consumables Christmas with our son.

So the big things:
Get the tree and decorate it
Put up lights – which my husband should be able to do over a lunch break
Wrap presents

We’ve ordered cards through the school fundraiser, but not a ton, and honestly, I don’t care about cards. Delegating that to my husband if he cares.

Also, and crucially, I need to get out and plant my bulb order before the ground freezes. That’s my do or die for the coming weekend, even if I have to do it in the dark with a headlamp.

]]> By: Elisa https://lauravanderkam.com/2024/11/quiet-before-the-storm-another-sonnet/#comment-540494 Mon, 18 Nov 2024 16:36:10 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=19807#comment-540494 Mixed reviews for Red One in my house too. Seems to have targeted a very narrow demographic – ha!

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