A few days ago, lemon-says wondered why her kids went to the ER more than her friends' kids. It all balances out in a karmic scale. My kids barf when they get colds. Curse you, post-nasal drip ( Read more... )

I'm so lazy nowadays. I post little soundbites of my life over on Facebook, and I keep thinking, "I should post something of substance on Livejournal" then I get distracted by the children or something shiny.  My apologies.

It's been a month since my gallbladder was evicted. The surgery recovery was pretty easy, and I am thankful it is gone. ( Read more... )

There is nothing cuter than a little girl spinning in a twirly dress saying "I am ballerina."

Since it's hot as blazes out there, I'm enjoying the air-conditioning and catching up on my reading on the first day of June.

My library hold list brought me the new Sookie Stackhouse book, Dead and Gone. I polished it off between last night and this morning. It is so much better than the previous book in the series. They aren't deep, but they are ( Read more... )

Instead of buying the girls yet more stuff,on Saturday, we all went to the Ringling Brother and Barnum & Bailey Circus for their birthday.  We had 11:00 AM tickets so we were out of the house by 9:15 in order to get on MARTA for the train ride down to Phipps Arena. We take public transit whenever possible, because the girls love it, and Tom and I  ( Read more... )

I believe Katie has an ear infection (as well as a raging cold, but that's nothing to see a doctor about).  She's been grabbing her ears for the last two days when she eats or sleeps. My early afternoon will be spent picking Amelia up from preschool and then taking them out for a quick lunch and shuttling them to the doctor's office ( Read more... )

Katie's sleeping in a bed now, instead of a crib.  Late last week, I took her shopping for a big girl blanket for her bed (which has been in her room for a few weeks).  She chose a Dora blanket, even though she's not a big fan of the show.  Ah, well ( Read more... )

Both of the girls have some sort of virus, and they've been little punks all weekend. If you've heard the saying, "I love you, but I don't like you right now", it's where I'm at right now. Katie and I had a throwdown this morning about me changing her out of her pajamas into street clothes so we could go to the grocery store. She was in such a ( Read more... )

Saturday, we joined a gaggle of LJ friends for the first annual LJ Meetup coordinated by the lovely mrs__smith  at Stone Mountain. It was an absolute hoot! We spent the afternoon lazing around under the trees while the children climbed trees, kicked around soccer balls, and ran themselves ragged.

Here's a picture of most of the womenfolk and children:  (It's ( Read more... )

While picking the girls up from preschool today, Amelia said she wanted to show me something in the music room. She led me into the Scholastic book fair and said, "Look, Mommy! They have so many perfect books for sale!  I need new books ( Read more... )