I was going to write a very comprehensible post about Ramadan, but I have a headache caused by lack of caffeine because I switched from coffee to tea this morning and thus am not much in the mood to try a craft one at the moment. But there's a dozen things I want to post about, so here we are, with yet another list of things.

1. The switch from ( Read more... )

Hi, Mrs. X, I told Andrew I would send you a note this morning about his GRIEVOUS INJURY. We went to La Plage beach yesterday and Andrew apparently cut his big toe a little bit and now claims that it is extremely painful and that he cannot possibly go to school. It is a TERRIBLE GRIEVOUS INJURY but I told him that he will be fine and that exercise ( Read more... )

 Apparently I am incapable of teaching children how to talk, and therefore Charlie had his first speech therapy appointment this morning. It was Take Number Three, because the previous two attempts at an appointment this week were cancelled as the therapist was sick. The first morning, Monday, we were already on our way to the appointment when we ( Read more... )

 Andrew has been home the last two days because of some weird... sickness? We thought it was just a general cold yesterday morning, he had a headache and a sore throat, and he fell asleep on the couch in the afternoon, and then in the evening his temperature spiked up to 102F. Today he stayed home because the schools have a 24-hour policy on fevers ( Read more... )

Andrew's birthday party was last night, which was a kind of odd time to have it, since it's essentially Sunday night in this part of the world. But it was the only night we could have it, and plenty of kids showed up, so there's that. Then again, part of that might have had to do with us holding it at the local Chuck E Cheese, which I think is ( Read more... )

Because what you do is get in your Halloween costume and sing Take Me Out to the Ballgame. Naturally.

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Okay, today was just weirdTwo things happened that woke me up at 5am, and I'm not entirely sure what order they occurred in. The first (though not necessarily in a chronological sense) was that Charlie woke up around 5am, but I was able to put him back down fairly quickly with a bottle ( Read more... )

It's the first day of the week of Andrew's first official summer vacation. So far... not terrible. We went to Charlie's last playgroup this morning, took passport pictures for the diplomatic passports and visas (not that we have the paperwork to get them, but this way, I'll be ready), and stopped off at Trader Joe's, where I swear Andrew dumped the ( Read more... )

( Because the important conversations don't just happen in the car, apparently. )

Oh, my lord, this week ( Read more... )