I need to get back in the habit of blogging.

I freely admit it, my memory sometimes mashes stuff up (until I've had a chance to sit and percolate over it) and my blog has been a lifesaver at helping back up my insistence that yes, such and such thing happened on such and such date, how do I know, I blogged about itPart of the problem, though, is ( Read more... )

I somehow never envisioned this day.

Well, I did, but far off in some misty, distant future, nebulous and untouchable in the land of Someday. Because in my mind's eye, last week, my daughter was two and lurching around the living room with a very large dog and three attendant cats, chocolate smeared around her mouth from the chocolate chip ( Read more... )

The Impertinent Daughter is a senior and will be graduating this year. That's twelve years worth of excuse notes that I've written for her alone (because I home-schooled her for kindergarten), and I am so done with this school district. Seriously ( Read more... )

I've been sitting on this for a while, and kept meaning to post it, but life and stuff, you know? Gets in the way.

Anyhow, this came about because of a conversation the Impertinent Daughter and I had after one of the "turning the Wraith human" episodes on Stargate Atlantis. Because we wondered how much of their human characteristics would they ( Read more... )

Do y'all remember the Centrifugal Ketchup Incident? You know, when the Impertinent Daughter was trying to get the ketchup from the bottom of the ketchup bottle so she could pour it out... and ended up splattering it across the ceiling, the floor, and the cat?

She did it again last night.


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A lunch-note I slipped into the Impertinent Daughter's lunch this week...


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Haven't posted in a while, I know. Real life keeps me busy, mostly in the form of two harum-scarums who regularly give me fits ( Read more... )

So I was at the public library in San Marcos yesterday because once again, it is Animanga Club time. This is the Impertinent Daughter's third year and... the Impossible Son's first.

He LOVED it, by the way!

Oh, that's right, I forgot. We dyed the Impossible Son's hair this week. It's bright florescent GREEN!!!


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She's done it again. The Impertinent Daughter has blown me away with her art again.

Yeah, I know, proud mom here. But it's not like I can drag you all HERE to look at the door of my fridge, is it?

It took me a moment to realize this was a DRAWING!!!


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