Excuses, updates, whatever

I think about writing, I really do, but when I sit down to do it (after my husband comes home, so I can use his laptop) (because mine is still broken) it just turns into two paragraphs about what I’m seeing in front of me at that very second.
For example, today’s post is going to […]

Allergy Face and Fat Lip Boy

Ah, childhood
Yeah, I’m not getting a lot done these days. Owen has developed an allergy to penicillin (chip off the old block!) which was alarming, but the reaction he had to the second, replacement antibiotic is what really got my blood moving this morning, his face as bumpy and red and round as a raspberry […]

First! Day! Of School!

He has been waiting all summer for this day.

You can’t make this stuff up.

So I’ve been growing zinnias this summer. Cubic yard after cubic yard, all zinnias. Yesterday, we’re hanging out en famille in the front yard and Owen is checking out my garden, telling me what to dig up and move and what to save. Very helpful, that four-year-old. He spots a beautiful pink zinnia and I […]

More kiddie coiffure

Every night after his bath, I comb Owen’s hair. He always gives me the specs: I want it flat, I don’t want girl hair, make it go back like this.
Well, lately he’s been telling me “Flat on top, curly on the sides.” I’m like, uh. What?
Turns out he meant this.

My kid. Marches to the […]

Proof that TV does not rot brains

Owen came up to me the other day and informed me that if I had anything heavy to move, like say his baby brother, I could just use an incline plane.
I was all, say what? And he was all, what. Saw it on Sid The Science Kid. And I was like, high fives, little smart […]

Sewing: purple pajamas

Last month I dragged the kids to the fabric shop to spend a gift card on knits. I managed to find the last 3 or 4 yards of organic cotton jersey and bought it up. I asked Owen what he would like, and he firmly requested a purple rib knit that caught his eye for […]

How to occupy your nearly-four-year-old

Plan ahead by ordering a copy of the Playmobil catalog. Wait for it to arrive. Hand it, and a magnifying glass (or photographer’s loupe) to your preschooler. Sit back and enjoy the quiet.

p.s. The pirates he got for his third birthday? It’s been like 350 days straight that he’s been playing with them. Literally. Every […]

One last thing about the dentist

It was Owen’s first visit ever to the dentist yesterday. Kid was a Rock. Star. for his first cleaning. Best 3-year-old patient the hygienist had ever seen, she said. Hopped right up on the chair, opened wide, did everything she asked. Thought the fluoride “teeth vitamins” tasted great. Him in his little Spongebob glasses. Wish […]

Toasty hands

I finished knitting the first pair of mittens!

It’s so awesome how this knitting thing is making sense now.
Owen loves them; he calls them his “Santa mittens.” When he puts them on he’s Santa, and I’m the girl elf, and Mac is the baby elf, and Iain is the boy elf, and we have to […]

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