Isk came up to me in the dining room while I was sending a work email. "Mommy," he said, "On the new Ben Folds album there is a song with the name of the man that you and Mama like reading stories about ( Read more... )

"What you need is a male-female adapter. Because, see, this is a male piece, and this is a male piece, and, in trains, that doesn't work."

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I totally just read Isk most of the stories in the Mo Willems fandom on the AO3.

Yeah, we start fanning early in this house.

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Said to my wife while we both lay in bed reading fic ( Read more... )

If you have chronic skin itchiness, and then your cats somehow get fleas (we don't know how, they're indoor cats), and then you get flea bites on every inch of your legs from hips on down to ankles ( Read more... )

SCENE: Leigh and Amal are putting away the clean dishes from the dishwasher ( Read more... )

It's funny when, accidentally, you mess up the name of the intro course your character is trying to write a syllabus for with the name of the intro course you habitually teach. In a different discipline. Project much, professor?

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Sample of the questions my son has asked about the Olympics:

1. Is this lady rowing? I only want to watch ( Read more... )

This is the post where we make fun of my wife for staying up until dawn to read the third of the books in the 50 Shades of Grey trilogy.

At least when I stay up until dawn reading porn, it's usually well-written ( Read more... )

Quick, which one of these OMFG PARENTING quotes wins?

Leigh: DO NOT close your penis in a car door, that will hurt it.

vs.

Amal: No, I need to wipe your butt, move the police car.

Yes, same incident ( Read more... )