I am the proud Mama of two children with black belts in Tae Kwon Do. Testing photos here.


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My husband's grandmother has died, peacefully, in Hospice, of old age at 99 1/2 years. She is survived by one sister (she is preceded in death by the middle sister), three children, eight grandchildren, eleven great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild. Everyone seems to be doing all right.

( Marina Zidek 16 July 1911 to 5 March 2011, history, immigration story, and interview )

My boy's butt is skinny. It does not effectively hold up his pants. When his shoes are on, they act as, well, corks for his pants. Once we got home and pantsshoes are deposited at the door...well...less so ( Read more... )

Last weekend was the 4th bday party for mtgat's male offspring. We went to a Chuck-E-Cheese-like arcade that was MUCH cooler than the real house of mouse. The kids got SCADS of tickets and Ben chose, with his share, to get a bag of marbles, as he's been All About Marbles lately. He carefully chose the ones that were more blue than green-glass because ( Read more... )

Last night when I checked the kids before going to sleep, I noted that they were in the bottom bunk together, which hadn't happened in ages ( Read more... )

I have now downloaded all the nifty stuff I've been saving in my nifty phone (yay, Husband's Bluetooth connector toy!) and so I have lovely new icons from the photos in the phone AND have saved the little movies of Elf swimming to my AOL space ( Read more... )

My kids have been engaging in a LOT of pretend play together. It's ADORABLE. They've been doing things like play fighting, play arguing, "mommy and baby," "mommy dog and baby dog" (Ben is always the baby), pretending to be animals, and so forth ( Read more... )