SCENE: Two five-year-old girls are walking barefoot and hand-in-hand down a forest path. Natalie is holding a big foam sword in her other hand. I am walking by and eavesdropping from another path ( Read more... )

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After many years of nerdy service, devclue.com breathed its last this week. RIP /dev/clue, and all you were and are no longer. If that's the email address you have for me, it is dead. Email me at photoclave.com instead.

Real Live Preacher on doing something for the last time.

Do you realize how big that is? Four.

One of the best things I've messed up in the past year was losing our baby monitor. The way our house is set up, dilletante and I sleep in the basement and N's bedroom is on the second floor. When we lost the monitor, she was suddenly able to get up out of bed herself to pee in the middle of the night; also, now, in the ( Read more... )

N's first day of School was today.


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( this kid is still my kid. )

Reasons I feel like a good parent:

• N's preschool teachers keep asking things like "...did she just go to Amsterdam?" and "did you guys eat chocolate noses yesterday?" and I get to say "Oh, yup! That really happened."
  
• Today I got asked by a green knight, "Mommy, if I wanted to find a squire, where should I look?" When I suggested the home of the ( Read more... )

N: "How did you grow up? I'm trying VERY hard."
Me: "Well, I waited a very long time, and while I was waiting, I learned a lot of stuff."
N: "Hey! That's what I did, too! That's how I growed up, too!"