Tonight we watched Tabby's Induction into the National Honors Society. Her speech about her plans for World domination received a few moments of stunned silence but eventually went over well.

It worked out well that Karl and I were late because we had to drop Mystrycat off at the Hospital to visit her dad (ankle surgery). Because of our ( Read more... )

 Last night at around 11:30, I was heading to bed and noticed that the girls were up.  I was a little concerned since they were actually still on the phone that late and on the speaker at that ( Read more... )

 A point brought up in discussions this weekend.  We often look at the teens and young adults in our lives and think "Wow, they are going to be in for a major shock about (insert "some lesson to be taught" here)when they get out in the real world!"

My wish is that the only real unpleasant shock I want my kids to figure out is "God Dammit, my parents ( Read more... )

Today:  Breezy's Belated Birthday Sleepover- try to pack up some CONvergence stuff ( Read more... )

Yesterday at the Zoo. We took tons of pictures. Minireggie was having a good time with that.
We had left the Como Zoo entry building when Sprinklekit points out that she heard my full name over the loudspeaker.

Rather confused, I leave Sprinklekit and H. in charge of the middles and head back into the building with Squishy in tow. My wallet was ( Read more... )

We have reached that time of day...   The meltdown hours ( Read more... )

We went to the pool yesterday. I thought I would share a couple of pictures.
There are more on the Flickr page. Though you have to get past the choir pics to get to them.
( NWS...but only for jealousy reasons. )

When Santa Fell to Earth by Cornelia Funke

I really liked this book.  It has a different feel to it and takes a slightly different look at Santa and the commercialism of Christmas.  It makes it easier to swear off the chocolate this Christmas though.

I read two chapters to Minireggie (over the phone) with Breezy listening in.

Then I got permission ( Read more... )

At the grocery store, I told Squishy that he was "precious". His response? "Ya, I am."

As I was swinging the car into a parking space at the Mall yesterday, Squishy yells out, "Swow  down! Ya gonna kiw  us!"  (That translates to "Slow down! You are going to kill us!) He cracks me up.

Riding the coin operated horse

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What I found when I opened my refrigerator.

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