Me: If you could choose your dream what would you choose ( Read more... )

We did an activity where Indy had to say words that had something to do with trains and then words that had something to do with rain. Then I asked him to write a sentence about trains or the rain. He proposed instead to tell me a story about a train and the rain. There is something, I don't know, existential about this piece. And its all him, he ( Read more... )

A couple weeks ago I was sitting on the floor of the YMCA watching Indy at his first gymnastics class. While I was sitting there I wrote this in the back blank pages of the book I was reading. I had been waiting to post it, to edit it a bit, but I've decided against it. This is pure, exactly what I was thinking and writing as I was sitting there. ( Read more... )

Today was beautiful, even though I didn't know it at the time ( Read more... )

So Michael Jackson's kids aren't biologically his? Big surprise. I hope people don't make too much out of that story though, because they are still his kids. They were still raised by him, he was still their father, and they will forever remember him as their dad, and it is a disservice to them to say otherwise ( Read more... )

And thus begins a new feature of this journal, titled "When I Use To Be More Fun".


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From indy to mommy:

"I love your eyes and your hair and everything on you"

How did he know those were my best features?

There was a point in my life when I thought I was going crazy. I had started talking to myself as if I was two different people. The other me, her name was Samantha. One day at work I asked myself* a question in my head, and answered myself out loud. I stopped right there and said, "This is getting too crazy, you need to stop now." And I did. I ( Read more... )

Reading the book, There's a Monster at the End of this Book Indy said to me,

"I'm not scared of monsters. I'm happy of monsters and monsters are happy of me."

Imagining swimming with the humming fish from The Lorax Indy raised his hands in front of his face and said ( Read more... )

But you know you want to hear my boy sing "Fish Heads"

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