A couple of days ago, in McNamara terminal in Detroit, Fire Child and I were on a quest to find a banana. A couple of movators away from our gate, I heard a voice behind me ask, "How long did it take you to grow your locs?" I turn around, and it's a black woman, about my age, with locs herself. We have a satisfying but too-quick conversation about ( Read more... )

Oh so little time left between now and airline/family/airline doom. I'll be so happy once this stupid trip is over ( Read more... )

Trying to discern how big a train package would need to be to fit three Thomas trains in it, I asked how big Fire Child thought those trains were. He held up his hands to an appropriate size.


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[I was explaining the difference between transparent, translucent, and opaque.]

"That door is opaque. Light doesn't travel through to the other side."
"It's transLUCENT!"
"No, sweetie, it's opaque. It's solid. Light doesn't get through it."
"I have a light saber so I can break that door with light."
"That's pretty awesome, hon."

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frozen corn, please do not thaw ( Read more... )

:: drinking iced Holy Basil tea and staying calm ( Read more... )

A mama checks in with her gender queer girly boy. I am really grateful to be parenting at this time, as opposed to any earlier -- I speak on historical terms and not my own personal age. I love that gender queerness and gender fluidity is gaining acceptance for wee folk... that gender neutral is something to aspire to, instead of the heavily- ( Read more... )

oh, baby, please sleep. I know the fans bother you and that having a blanket on bothers you, too, but I can't hold you for your entire nap. At least let me lie you down on the couch to sleep so I can relax a little on the tubes. Please? It's become painfully obvious that I won't get that nap. *sigh ( Read more... )

Damn. The fire child would be over the moon if he could go to The Parade of Sail tomorrow. I'd so love to take him to see this, but it's at 2:30 and misslynx will have him then for Pride.

How disappointing.