"What would you like about living during Pilgrim times ( Read more... )

Went to KMart.  Got cat food.  Fed cat.  Cat ate.  Cat barfed it up on the best oriental wool rug, just six inches from the linoleum.  Cat napping.  Cats are like that ( Read more... )

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"We do not store our boogers for later, no matter how spectacular they are.  They go in the trash or toilet, not under the pillow." 

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Why is it human nature to repeat behavior, even when all prior evidence indicates that it's gonna hurt?

 Yesterday, for mothers' day, Sam gave me a bottle of organic ketchup (Williams Sonoma, $10), two marigolds in a school-decorated carton, and a card he drew.  Eeeexcellent.  That ketchup will be great on tater tots, dontcha think?

I've got an Idea:  kid-friendly camping trip (now with dogs, too ( Read more... )

It has been an interesting evening, but a bit overwhelming on my household, my patience, and my larder.  
Boys descended, five of them, ages five to ten.  There was ninja-warrioring, hiding of eggs, wrestling, arguing, attempts to establish dominance, and a rehash of (WTF!?) an assembly at school today wherein Sam and Nick read a Unity Poem!  
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 I figured I had at least until the kid was in fourth or fifth grade (and I secretly dreamed that it would never happen to me, that I could be the kind of parent that would be above it).  But once again, he's showing himself to be precocious, and this time, it kills me.  I still haven't  reconciled myself to this statement of his from Saturday:  "I ( Read more... )