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happy tears.
I forgot about livejournal for a while there. I still love this place. If you've written sometihng interesting, recently, please link me to it in comments; catching up is hard and seems impossible ( Read more... ) -
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I love wildfire!
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on community.
I should have a lot to say right now but I don't ( Read more... ) -
tiny echoes
When I was growing up, whenever I gave my (last) name to a stranger, there was a great chance that they would say, "Oh! Dr Tomlinson is my doctor" (or my mom's doctor, or etc etc), and then tell me some wonderful awesome story about him that would of course both charm and mortify me because I was 17 and I didn't really want to hear about how sweet ( Read more... ) -
just a moment of emo, thx
This weekend was my first time visiting Open Studios, ever. I never wandered around it before trying to exhibit, and then later I got caught up in my crazy portrait experiment. But I needed a year off. I flirted with this last year, taking an hour to go visit Vernon Street with longueur, and this year I just took the whole damn weekend. And it was great! I ( Read more... ) -
let's see whatcha got
What is a thing that you see as a fundamental character trait of yours that you wouldn't ever want to be without?
For me, I think it's a sense of play. No matter how much craziness there is in the world, I basically always have time for a little ridiculousness.
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Physicalkid
Natalie's always been a shockingly physical kid. As a baby, she wanted to be swaddled to sleep much longer than the other kids. She loves snuggles, and still would sleep on top of me like a mattress if I let her. She points and gestures, and tells stories with her body in a way I don't often see. She loves running and climbing and biking and ( Read more... ) -
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Lucid sex dreams: recommended. I'm just saying.
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Tiny updates on a big kid
Natalie is in our bed, asleep. I just crawled in and she said, "Mom?... Mom? This is a cheese over banana... Zzzsnrrrksnumb *SNORE*"
A literal snore, right at the end of her sentence.
Today she and Sylvana built a time machine out of the recycling. It runs on tokens, which they also made. Except, as she explained to me, normal time machines don't ( Read more... ) -
Homeworkin'
this article from mzrowan got me thinking about homework -- one of my favorite things to hate. The article details one father's attempts to do his 8th-grade daughter's homework every night for a week, and it gave me chills. 3 hours! a day ( Read more... )