J got up around 6:45 this morning, so I told him to go find something to do until I was ready to get up (you can do that when they're four and potty-trained, as long as they're not hungry). We had some breakfast, then my mom came over and we walked up to the market. Before she got here, D called to check in. They got to the beach at around seven ( Read more... )

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(Note: this is the short version of the story. The long version involves misplaced paperwork, incomplete vaccination records, and people not returning phone calls ( Read more... )

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We were hanging out in the living room last night. J left to get something and as he did, he said "I'll be back as soon as a duck can walk ( Read more... )

This isn't supposed to be All Kid, All the Time, but it has been, mostly because work has been spectacularly sucky. I found myself in a situation that was completely unexpected and very negative, and it's lasted since October. This was coincidentally the entire span of my current pregnancy. How crummy does it have to be that I was looking ( Read more... )