Connor self-weaned two days ago. He'd been very erratic with nursing for a couple weeks, and didn't nurse for two days, then tried to do it. But he wasn't doing it properly, so I said, "If you want to nurse, you have to do it right ( Read more... )

Younger Spawn thought it would be a brilliant idea to hide a plastic bin in the oven. Since I'm an idiot who keeps forgetting about his obnoxious new habit, I started preheating the oven for dinner without checking inside first. Fifteen or twenty minutes later, I started hearing that distinctive thfweeee! sound of burning plastic as it drips down, ( Read more... )

The past five days have been Tear Central around here, and that's really unusual for me. It takes a hell of a lot to make me cry, and I resist it with every cell in my body. So to have four separate bawling sessions over the past five days is extremely out of the ordinary ( Read more... )

I had something to say, and then I forgot it. Go me. All right, on to the everyday stuff.

GOING OUT: Tomorrow evening I'm going to catch a movie with outcast_spice, which will undoubtedly be fun (and huzzah for escaping the house to hang out with another adult ( Read more... )

Connor's never really been interested in my music, despite my best efforts to get him into it. The only music that he's showed even a mediocre response to is Bear In The Big Blue House.

Just now, I remembered a band Henry Rollins mentioned last night, called the Bad Brains. I went to look them up on youtube, and started playing this video.

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It's Connor's birthday; he's two years old. We survived the babyhood, and are firmly into the toddlerhood. The vast majority of days I still wonder if we'll survive his toddlerhood, but at least we made it through the first two years ( Read more... )

and took the kids, since they and I have been having this aggravating cough-and-sick for a week (me) to a week and a half (the kids) and we don't seem to be getting better. I wanted my awesome doctor to listen to our lungs and make sure it hadn't morphed into bronchitis or something ( Read more... )

Although technically I've been awake since roughly 5:30 AM. And I didn't even stumble into bed until 3 AM (because Connor, who is sick, was up until 3 AM, and he can't be left without supervision), and probably fell asleep around 3:30 AM ( Read more... )

Yesterday I spent three hours making a yule log (cake, not wood) - chocolate sponge cake jellyroll-style, with Peppermint Stick ice cream as the filling, and then chocolate ganache covering the outside to create the tree bark, and then little meringue mushrooms all over the log. And a meringue caterpillar. I must admit that I routinely fail my goal ( Read more... )

I've got nothing. There's like 40+ windows open that I want to respond to and comment on and I just... can't. I don't have it in me right now. Am still reading and loving you all, though ( Read more... )