I need to take Molly to get new sneakers.  I bought her some boots for the start of school and they were a size 4.  When we looked at her current sneakers, they were a size 2.5.  Um, yeah.  She needs a new pair ( Read more... )

I got this recipe from a library book of Spanish food.  The recipes focus on tapas and on modern Spanish (think El Bulli) food.  It sounded neat, but what I realized is that while there are many tapas dishes I'd like to eat, and lots of recipes in the book that I'dlike to taste, it's not really food that I want to cook ( Read more... )

On the way to soccer practice, we were listening to NPR.  I thought just I was listening to it, but when they brought up Barack Obama's name, the kids perked up.  "OBAMA!  That's the guy you voted for ( Read more... )

Last week, the kids started school - 1st and 3rd grade.  Yay.  Hallelujah.  Hooray!  Obligatory photos below.


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The kids and I were in the car, and I had Avenue Q's song "Everyone's a  Little Bit Racist" playing.

All of a sudden, Jacob mutters, "I'm not racist".

Then Molly stopped singing along with song and asked "What's racist?"

A pigeon, actually, so it's up to you whether you classify that as a bird or a rodent.  ;)  In either case, there was just a little bump as it went under the tire, but a quite impressive spew of feathers out the back.  Poor bird, though, what were you thinking, landing on the roadway just as my car was approaching ( Read more... )

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but we had an amazingly productive day ( Read more... )

 Molly turned 6 last week and had her birthday party, a raucous affair with a bunch of 3,5 and 6 year olds, on Saturday.  I still think that the perfect amount of time for a birthday party is about 1 and a half hours.  This party was 2 hours and just a *little* too long for me.  Short, sweet and to the point ( Read more... )

We saw Cloverfield the other night.  You may have seen the signs at the ticket booth stating that people have felt physical effects similar to riding a rollercoaster while watching the movie?  Yeah.  They're not kidding about that.  However, besides the long lasting fit of the queasies that I had, I thought it was a really cool movie.  It ( Read more... )