Me: Scoottt … I need the octopus chandelier!

Z:  You don’t need it-I mean, it’s cool, but kinda creepy.

Me: No, I neeeeed it.

Z:  You don’t need it.

Me:  Okay, I waaant it, really a loooottt …
Z:  (pats my leg) That’s a much better way of putting it. 

Elementary school open house (this is where you go find out your teacher, get set up for before and after school care, all that happy jazz) was apparently not chaotic enough-they decided to add a scavenger hunt this year.  Scott took care of most of that while I did volunteer orientation.  Because I will chaperone the Disney trip again this year, ( Read more... )

Number of Plans I Have Thwarted Today: 5 (no, you may not make a grappling hook; no you may not try to lasso things off the countertop; no, an entire day of cartoons is not a good idea; no, an entire day of video games is not a viable alternative to that; stuffed animals do not mix with the splash park ( Read more... )

Spent Saturday at Islands of Adventure to celebrate jkason's birthday ( Read more... )

1. The copy of Trying to Save Piggy Sneed that I ordered came in! (The joy of working at the library is processing my own Interlibrary loans.)

2. My mother-in-law called and left me a voice mail to let me know she’s ODing on Doctor Who, and it’s all my fault.

3.  I got enough sleep for the first time in what seems like forever, so I’m not a ( Read more... )

I may be having a very small freakout about my kid starting second grade tomorrow.  He’s done so much growing just over this summer, and I like him so much …

I mean, based on the past seven years, he’ll continue this trend of getting more and more interesting and funny.  But it’s cliche for a reason, that whole my baby is starting second grade thing ( Read more... )

I spent the morning with the kid. We went to the dollar movie showing of Despicable Me 2. [1] They had four theaters open for this movie, and they were all full--apparently the dollar movies are very popular with the local day camps ( Read more... )

I am also high as balls on allergy meds at the moment. (I wrote that specifically for my lovely friend, Erin ( Read more... )

Birthday sleepover tomorrow - baking cupcakes and dyeing eggs with two 7 year old boys.

Chuck E Cheese birthday party Saturday. Loud, but with bonus I-don’t-have-to-do-anything. And Guitar Hero!

Easter on Sunday. Egg hunt!

Oh, and did I mention that he lost his first tooth today? He totally lost his first tooth today.

That’s Laura with an A, committee ( Read more... )

So, 2013. For an awful lot of reasons, just a not-good year.

But every year has good things, and this is a list of mine:

1. My lovely husband just kept happily surprising me at every turn this year.

2. Got to go to Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer's ninja gig in Sarasota with jkason!

3. Had a lovely 40th birthday slumber party with doggiesushi, jkason, and my boys ( Read more... )