We're deep into Spring Break now. Lucas and Asher have had last week and this week off school and daycare. I am in the midst of my busiest weeks of this year, so this isn't an ideal situation. I was more than a little freaked out heading into the break, but I've since relaxed and honestly things are going fine. The grandmothers helped me out a lot ( Read more... )

A Facebook friend posted this link and I had to share: http://corcholat.com/!13H

Tonight, for a brief - but glorious - five minutes of rowdy singing and raucous laughter, I was a GOD to a 6-year-old boy:

"Pickle, pickle in a jar,
How I wonder what you are!
You swim in briny juice so sweet,
Like a little, purple beet.
Pickle, pickle in a jar,
How I wonder what you are!"

After having listened to my parents periodic freaking out about my missing ID and how we are going to have to board an airplane to Hawaii  in a week,

Just after having checked the DMV website to find out how to get a replacement driver's license,

Just after having called my credit card company to find out if new and bogus charges had been made on ( Read more... )

Devotees of two of the geekiest interests (Classics and stamp collecting) teamed up to make a geeky book: Greek Rural Postmen and their Cancellation Numbers. And then some more geeky folks judged its geekiness.

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I'm only now getting around to recording this moment from a few weeks ago.

Lucas: "Dad, if Asher and Grandma RoRo had a race, who do you think would win?"
Ian (laughing): "I don't know. Who do you think would win?"
Lucas: "Definitely Asher."

After sharing my chicken story, I got this email reply from my mommy friend Susannah, with whom I had visited in the park on that fateful chicken-killing morning. We don't know each other all that well yet, so it seems she wasn't sure how I'd receive her message. Truth is, I laughed my ass off!

"Well, I hope by now you realize that that chicken ( Read more... )

Scene: I'm getting out of the shower with Asher. We're toweling off. Lucas is in the living room.

Lucas: "Mom! Mom! Mom!"
Me: "What?"
L: "MOM!"
M: "WHAT?"
L: "What?"
M: "What do you need, Lucas?"
L: "I don't know."
M: "You called me."
L: "Oh."

Aside M: !@#$%^&*!@!

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