So once again I have woefully failed to keep up on this journal. Alas. But, I return (however briefly?) to LJ with a big update, because we had a pretty big summer ( Read more... )

In my previous post I wrote about the logistics of last Thursday. It turned out fine, of course. I ended up going with the option that was less logistically complicated but that involved me not seeing the kids for almost a full 24 hours. The babysitter picked them up after school, and since it was a ridiculously hot day, they basically just hung ( Read more... )

I allllmost failed at the "post once a week" thing, but I'm squeaking in under the wire here ( Read more... )

First day of third and sixth grade!! Pictures under the cut. :)

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Ruthie is back from an extended 2-day, 2-night sleepover/play date with her cousin Baz. Thanks sandykidd for keeping her fed and alive and such. ;) She was happy to snuggle with me at bedtime and then sacked out like whoa ( Read more... )

Today after Isaac's Little League game, he and I were craving some Chinese food, but our usual place was too crowded, and the other issue was that Ruthie doesn't like Chinese. So we decided to go over to Porter Square, hit Panera for some plain buttered noodles (one of the very few things Ruthie will reliably eat *eyeroll*), and then go to a ( Read more... )

On how we're doing / what we've been up to the past few days ( Read more... )

Some birthdays went by and as usual I neglected to note them here! So I shall be making some backdated posts, so try not to be too confused if they show up in your feed ( Read more... )

( The oh-so-fascinating minutiae of our weekend! )

So according to hopemcg, LJ is cool again. I think my humor-meter was broken when I read that FB post from her, so I'm not really sure whether she was being sarcastic/humorous and/or just trying to say that she had made an LJ post and wanted people to read it. ;) But in any case, here I am once again saying that I intend to start posting on LJ again! Will ( Read more... )