The normal routine at our house is that Himself gets the prince up in the morning and I put him to bed at night.

This evening during bedtime, the prince wrote “DADDY” on his … what is it, a magnadoodle or something, an infinitely erasable drawing toy, and propped it against his bookshelf so his dad will see it in the morning, and I’m not allowed to ( Read more... )

On Saturday afternoon, I took the prince to a classmate’s 5th birthday party; Himself stayed home because my doing the party by myself* bought me an evening at my own friend’s birthday while he did bedtime by himself. (*Most kids come to these things with just one parent; presumably the other parent is home or elsewhere with their other child(ren ( Read more... )

Himself is on some sort of all-hands happy hour call with his work, in which they're doing a scavenger hunt in their respective homes (of course everyone is working remotely) - I keep hearing him run around grabbing this and that and hurry back to his office and laugh about things.

Ten minutes ago he knocks on my office door and says "Are you okay ( Read more... )

and of course now I feel like I could LEAP A TALL BUILDING IN A SINGLE BOUND. (I got my first shot a couple of weeks ago in a system that asked me to book my second appointment at the same time. The one I just got him has not done this, but the fact is that the first dose - and I did get him a first-of-two because that was what was available in the ( Read more... )

me: I separated the recycling.
Himself: And then I chucked another cardboard thing in the cans and bottles.
me: Well, that’s because you don’t love me as much as I love you.
prince, age 4: MOMMY. Daddy loves you. Don’t ever say that he doesn’t.
Himself: Thank you for defending me, [prince].
prince: Yeah, Mommy said you do not love her, but I descended ( Read more... )

So I didn't manage to post anything Thursday or Friday, and then Saturday - it's always harder for me to do anything actively online on weekends. I can just about manage passively reading everything on my various lists but that's pretty much it. Anyway it was my turn to do the grocery shopping this weekend, and Himself took the prince over to ( Read more... )

My husband has never cared for the brisket his mother makes every year for seder. This year, as we obviously couldn’t all be together, he said he’d try mine rather than go straight to barbecue brisket.

He agrees my brisket is better than his mother’s.

\o/ A zisn pesach, y’all.

I've been working from home since March 12, but for the first week (March 16-20) we kept sending the prince to day care, because it was open and they didn't have clusters of more than 10 people and the slight veneer of normalcy was good for all three of us. We had some anxiety about it, but. (It was the only place he was going, and I wasn't going ( Read more... )

( Health insurance stuff, in case it's been too long since readers outside the United States have had to think about how truly awful our health care system here is. )

I don't mean to be away for that long at a time. I think the issue is actually that I seldom use my laptop at home anymore - I'm on my work laptop at work or when I'm working from home, and when I'm at home not working, I get my internets on my phone, where it's harder to post to DW and much easier to post to Facebook or Twitter. (I'm on the work ( Read more... )