I was going to post about coming home, but instead, I am taking a 360. Thanks to noradannan for point me to electric boogaloo's blog.

So, yes, taken from electric boogaloo's post on family life, because this hit the spot, and sap that I am, made me tear up. I think perfectly sums up so much of what I feel parenthood is about, helping our kids to start ( Read more... )

Passing along because I feel it's worth sharing: The End of Reading Rainbow.

I suppose it comes as no surprise to anyone who knows me that this was one of my favorite shows when I was kid. I can't really say it was responsible for my love of reading, but it certainly helped foster it.

While I do agree it's important to teach kids how to read, ( Read more... )

So on Tuesday, we took our boys to see Up, in 3-D. ( Spoiler warning. )

So with initial LARP dates posted, and a good gaming session recently, my head is quite full of the desire to LARP / Game... and trying to think ahead to what needs done, mainly in costuming I need (or want) to do before those dates arrive. jjmarika's post, of course, made me envious of sergers, and I actually went to see how much such a thing would cost ( Read more... )

Life continues to be crazy, but hopefully there is a light at the end of the tunnel, and relatively soon.

Some highlights:
* Tolventure was much fun, but ended just as I hit the emotional high, so now I am pining. Desperately want more gaming. We should play more often, and darkwhimsy should have a winter revel for Aralis. Please ( Read more... )

Today was a big Christmas day for us. Though we were good and got a tree nice and early this holiday season, somehow the poor thing remained undecorated for weeks. The holiday season has just slipped by in the insanity that was this month, sadly ( Read more... )

Some highlights, as there's never enough time to capture it all ( Read more... )

My random post of the month...

For anyone with little children, you really must check out Sid the Science Kid, a (relatively) new show on PBS. It's a totally awesome show about a preschooler (and his friends) who totally love asking questions and "investigating" why the world is the way it is. Also, his preschool teacher rocks ( Read more... )

I am exhausted.

There's something about getting up before dawn that is just draining, regardless of what time you go to bed. After all, if before I could go to bed at 2am and get up at 7am without too much trouble, logic says I should be able to go to bed at 11:30am and get up at 4:30am, no problem, right? Wrooooong. By the time Friday rolls ( Read more... )