First, a snippet of conversation from this afternoon, quoted directly except for names.four-year-old child: Auntie Fox, why don't you're going to stay here forever?
me: No, baby, I'm going home tomorrow, to my house.
four-year-old child: Aw, man!
Furthermore, at his birthday party Friday evening the one-year-old child - handed to me early by his ( Read more... )

In Florida with the friends and the three adorable small children. All babies still cute, all glad I'm here, everything fine. Head still hurts; looking forward to ENT visit next Wednesday. Disappointed this evening when -- anh, right now I don't want to talk about it. See you all soon.

So I left Rochester earlier than I'd intended to with the idea of visiting
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Not in my house, but still. YAY ( Read more... )

Got all my cold calls finally finished today, and I'll tell you what, when you have thirty-five people to call and eight of them are unreachable for reasons like their numbers having been disconnected, the people at their offices never having heard of them, and similar, you're probably not going to get the thirty interviews you're aiming for. Yeah ( Read more... )

Note that if you tell a two-and-a-half-year-old child that you will carry her instead of making her walk or ride in the back of the double stroller (which, let it be noted, is her seat in the double stroller; she may want to ride in the front of the double stroller, but she hasn't done that since her sister got too big for the carrier that clicks ( Read more... )

NoRMaN #1 has been declaring the above subject line for the past ten or fifteen minutes, which her mother tells me means not that she is tired of her pajamas, but that she is too tired to deal with them right now, i.e. she doesn't want to get changed to take her nap.  I think we can all relate to the feeling of being so exhausted we can't face ( Read more... )

So I am in Minneapolis, with two of my bestest friends ever, both of their husbands (one of whom is up to his ears in dissertation, but he did emerge a couple of times to say hi), and ALL THREE NORMANS, and I am just the auntiest auntie in the world.  Seriously, you can't see it, but I'm about to die from kvell over here ( Read more... )

NoRMaN #3 is here!  (Who is not, in case you're playing along at home, the sister of NoRMaN #1 and NoRMaN #2, but rather a "cousin" of these.)  I think her due date was next Wednesday, or next Saturday, next week some time, so she doesn't actually count as early, medically speaking.  And she is healthy and my friend and her husband are exhausted ( Read more... )

Here is NoRMaN #2, at nap time.  The light was v. bright behind us; I painted out the back door, but I like the lighting, yeah?  (I'm distorted with cutout and she with ... something else, I forget what.)

Also, WELCOME BACK JON AND STEPHEN zOMG I MISSED YOU GUYS.