It has recently come to light that a member of my family is hopelessly addicted to a powerful substance, one that has such a grip on this person that it even disrupts her sleep.  She wakes several times a night for a quick fix, though during the day she is able to function normally, if a bit crabbily.

Yes, my boobie milk is that good.

Paige has ( Read more... )

His first at-school meltdown. Oh just rip my heart out and mail it to the top of Kilimanjaro. It did me in. I'm likely to homeschool him from here on out. If only homeschooling didn't require any discipline on my part, I'm sure I could do it ( Read more... )

I made a person. A real, live person with a life independent of mine, who goes on about his day while I go on about mine, our paths crossing only in the afternoon, at the end of the day. Someone whose peers will now influence him almost as much as I do, whose teacher will know things about him that I don't. A person with an inner life who is, as I ( Read more... )

Entertain himself for hours taping handmade price tags to our belongings. (TV: $400, Lamp: $6.00, Exersaucer: $50.00, Entire Bathroom: $600.00)

Offer a tutorial to the savviest of technophiles on the little-known features of the digital cable remote. (I bet you don't know how to sort your favorite programs by theme)

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First let's just get the milestones out of the way real quick: Tonight we went on our first school supply shopping trip with Owen, and Paige wore a little pink barrette in her wispy baby hair for the first time and looked adorable as sin. And there was a first for me, as well. I do believe that tonight may have been the first time I ever truly had ( Read more... )

Owen keeps mixing up the 4th of July and New Year's. I think it's because we lit some leftover sparklers on New Year's Eve this year, and naturally he associates sparklers with 4th of July. He thinks we're supposed to stay up til midnight tonight, so okay, whatever, we'll stay up til midnight. At least Mitch, John, and I will. Owen probably won't ( Read more... )

This picture really doesn't do the haircuts justice (I think the kids themselves are just too darn cute):


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Two scares this week, and that's enough for me, thank you.

The first one happened on Wednesday. I'd had just about enough of the Bobos ("big brothers"), so I hauled them off to their room for a nap. Naps are rare for the boys these days because if they nap, they don't go to bed until at LEAST 9:00 if not much later, but some days I just can't wait ( Read more... )

Top Ten Idiosyncrasies of the Big Brothers

ONE: Owen's fear of the beeping coffee maker, which causes him to hide on the stoop in the carport every morning, hands over ears, until the coffee has finished brewing.

TWO: Mitch's love affair with Dee Dee, which is not his name for his favorite blanket, but his name for the TAG on his favorite blanket, ( Read more... )