ZOMG we had such a busy weekend! I'm including Monday in the weekend because I took it off work due to Isaac's preschool being closed. They're closed all week, but one of his friends' mom agreed to take him for the day today, and my mom will have him tomorrow as usual. So I'm just taking vacation days yesterday and Thursday ( Read more... )

Also, last night we had a monsoon or something. I dunno. Ruthie and I were on the bus and it had just started out from Davis when I saw a big, dramatic bolt of lightning not far off. Then there was the clap of thunder, which didn't sound too loud to me because we were sitting right above the bus's engine, but I saw other people on the bus jump and ( Read more... )

I'm going to give up on beginning my posts with "zomg I haven't updated in so long, how will I ever catch up, so much has happened," because it's going to get tedious really fast. :( The thing is that I hate doing one-line summaries of stuff that happened when I have the ten-paragraph version in my head begging to come out. But I never get the ( Read more... )

I have a weather widget on my Firefox that displays little icons in the lower right-hand corner of the browser to tell you the weather forecast. It has three icons: one for right now, one for today (if it's the morning) or tonight (if it's the afternoon/evening), and one for tomorrow. Isaac loves to look at them and tell me what they say: "Mama, ( Read more... )

I am so in love with this video of Ruthie that I took yesterday!

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lol!!!

( three more short videos under the cut. including one that y'all Red Sox fans are gonna love :) )

Ruthie has definitely just been through (or is at the tail end of) a growth spurt. After all this time of parenting I have finally come to recognize the pattern ( Read more... )

Isaac has been showing a lot of interest in new words now that he can read. (he can READ!) He's always asking me what this or that word means, often words in books we've read a zillion times, where I guess previously he just ignored them or assumed their meanings from context. It's pretty cool. He's also asking more about how things work in general ( Read more... )

Pedroia wins Rookie of the Year! woohoo!

Last night I made Orange Chicken-style tofu from this recipe on vegweb.com. The recipe author claims that it tastes just like something you'd get at a Chinese restaurant -- and it did not disappoint. All that's missing is the MSG! This was SO tasty. I brought the other half to the office and will be eating ( Read more... )

Hmm, I thought my previous post would have generated more comment. Probably I erred in giving it an lj-cut with text that kind of implied it was all going to be whining about my digestive woes. I should have titled it something like "musings on food, eating, changing eating habits, and how being a grownup turns out not to suck so much after all ( Read more... )

omg! How did I manage to get to 2:30 the next day without posting RED SOX WIN! WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS WOOHOO OMG ETC.!!!Well, here's the thing. I did stay awake for the game last night. Unfortunately, so did Ruthie...Well, she dozed on and off, but by the time the game ended I was worn out from trying to get her down. So I just fell into bed with ( Read more... )