On the way to the grocery store Hootiebird and I had the following conversation ( Read more... )

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Yesterday was my son's first field trip. His class went pumpkin picking. when I got home he excitedly tole me about the school bus ride and how he and one of his friends were "trying to pick up a pumpkin, but it was tooo heavy! We wanted a cart but they were all full." He frowned at this point ( Read more... )

Caleb and I went to the grocery store today. While in line at the cash register the woman in front of us was being a cast iron bitch to the cashier. I don't mean she was being rude. She was being systematically and manipulatively cruel. The cashier was a chubby teenage girl who was having an acne outbreak. The customer was a 20 to 30 something ( Read more... )

I'm already having some conversations about "ghosts" with my son, and how they don't exist. Monsters are also imaginary, but when he decides they exist I tell him they look like parsley so our rabbits eat them, keeping him safe. I have to admit it's kind of liberating to be able to respond to "Daddy! There's a ghost in here!" with "You know there's ( Read more... )

Caleb is currently between schools. As part of covering child care I took last week off and spent it with Caleb. This included things like going to the aquarium, the zoo and other adventures ( Read more... )

Caleb's latest tactic for delaying bedtime is to claim he needs to go to the bathroom. It's now standard procedure for us to have him go to the bathroom just before we send him to bed. As he's been sleeping without a nighttime diaper for almost a week now the threat of him going to bed with a full bladder is a bit more problematic than when he wore ( Read more... )

I have 10 to 12 pounds of cherries to sort through. I need to freeze 10 for making a chocolate-cherry stout. The rest will be set aside for eating.

My devious plan is to see if my three year old son will help me stem them. This will either be a great Father / Son bonding experience, a futile effort to get a toddler to focus, or an event that will go ( Read more... )

whuffle and I occasionally bunsit rabbits. Most of the time these are rabbits we have fostered in the past or people who have adopted rabbits from HRN through us.  Last night two bunnies were dropped off by their owners. Rabbits do not like vacations to Mexico, so they will be hanging out with us.

During the process of setting up the cages hootiebird  got very ( Read more... )

Said by way of explaining why he'd dismantled a flashlight ( Read more... )