Blah. I am in the Internet Doldrums right now, I think. I love being online; I think we all know that. I just don't feel like entering the Bloggy Giveways (I barely have!), blogging, visiting message boards... I think it's... Read more →

What a day. Today's highlight was actually a lowlight. My child has lost her two front teeth. My youngest, three-year-old child. This one: She was doing something we both know she shouldn't have been but have allowed for such a... Read more →

It's giveaway time again, so make sure you go over there and check out all the wonderful prizes being given away! This time around, in addition to a tutu (make sure you check out my other giveaway!), I'm giving away... Read more →

The Bloggy Giveaway Carnival is back in town this week!! Stroll on over there and sign up - last I checked, there were about 500 and surely there will be several hundred more added before the week is out. I'm... Read more →

We went to the Zoo today, in downtown Nofolk. The occasion was a playdate for Chloë and her friend from Brownies, Claire. Debbie, the mom and our (now former) troop leader, had suggested it for them and for some adult... Read more →

It has not been a productive week for me, craftwise. Okay, I guess you could say it has been, with the tutus, but I have not knitted or crocheted anything, and that feels like lazytown to me. So yesterday, I... Read more →

[Note, this is actually my 331st post, but I forgot to post it!] I've seen this one around all over the blogosphere but haven't done it, preferring instead to save it for a momentous occasion. As this is my 300th... Read more →

So, I've started stocking my Etsy shop with the tutus I'm making! I'm having a lot of fun and am praying that they'll sell! I just listed them and already I have a bunch of views, and it's the middle... Read more →

S: Mom, can you cut open this package with your scissors? M: Hm, well, I can open it, but with my hands. S: With your SHARP hands? ******* S: Mom, do cats have penises? M: Yes, the boy ones do.... Read more →

There it goes... Rob's car getting shipped off to the junkyard. Buh-bye! Sophia goofing around with her father yesterday. Looks like she has a mullet! After school, Steph came over because we were supposed to go to the beach or... Read more →

Now, I know this post is going to sound like I'm tooting my own horn, but really, I don't normally like to discuss such things. It goes against the spirit of altruism, after all. But is anything really, truly altruistic... Read more →

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First Day of School So this morning was a little rough on my schoolchildren! I woke up just fine, thankfully (and Rob called me to wake me up, which makes him a heckuva guy), but the kids did not. I... Read more →

UGH! WTH is WRONG with me?!! I just put my children on the bus for their first day of school. Jack's FIRST day of kindergarten. Do you think I remembered to take a SINGLE picture? NO!!! Fin. Read more →

We did, after all, remember the pancakes. Well, I did. I woke up the first out of anyone this morning, and the kids all came running down the stairs soon afterward. They were hungry, and Rob wanted to make them... Read more →

I'm going to do bullets for the highlights of our day: Rob took Jack to get a haircut. He was bouncing off the walls crazy when he returned. I tried to get a decent picture of it to show you.... Read more →

Daddy called out, "Hey, kids, remind me to make pancakes tomorrow for breakfast!" Chloë called back, "Uh, how 'bout you just remember it?" Fin. Read more →

Our air conditioning is out. Oh, woe is me, woe is me. I feel like I'm back in Europe. Erin, I don't know how you stand it! I woke up sick this morning, with congestion, a sore throat, fever, the... Read more →

I am the worst mother in the world, and do you know why? Because my five-year-old son is going to kindergarten next week, and we met his new teacher and his new classroom today, and I did not remember to... Read more →

Tuesday: I broke out the 'special crayons' and let Jack and Sophia go to town on Chloë's huge coloring book at the table. They love those crayons. Half are missing, and one of the remainders is broken, so I bought... Read more →