A collection of conversations I had today with the coolest toddler I know.  Disclaimer: they are not verbatim, but they capture the essence of what was said.

Me: [holding up an orange scarf] What color is this, Kelvin?
Kelvin: Ornnnn...
Me: Can you say Lindsay?
Kelvin: Tee Tee!
Me: Lindsay?
Kelvin: Sin-seen!
Me: What are you eating?
Kelvin: Bah-NANA!!
Me: [ ( Read more... )

After almost a week's absense and about two weeks of very scattered posts, I emerge from the holiday season. Christmas was over with over a week ago- New Year's, or what consisted of New Year's, is gone and 2007 is here, and I am once again back to my real twenty-one-year-old world in Tucson ( Read more... )

I woke up to weather.com telling me, "Mornin'! It's 29 degrees outside, but it feels like 19. I know you don't know what the hell 29 degrees (let alone 19) actually feels like, but you prolly should wear something warm?" After remembering where I parked my car the night before in the midst of my early morning stupor on which caffeine no longer ( Read more... )

The past two days have felt a lot like last summer. The difference only is, it's pretty much constantly 40 degrees outside and the traffic is so bad near Best Buy, they have cops directing cars in and out of the parking lot. I braved the crowds on Monday after returning to ye ol' Tucson in order to get some Christmas shopping done, but the ( Read more... )

What went well today...because not much really went wrong ( Read more... )

Sometimes I wonder what Kelvin, the two foot toddler I babysit, will grow up to be. Some days I think he'll be a great chef, despite spilling all of the plastic, wooden, and cloth food all over the floor for me to pick up time after time. Other days, I'm convinced he'll be a hockey player, even when he knocks himself in the face with the wooden ( Read more... )

Waking up is not the easiest thing I have to do. It would be so simple to just ignore that alarm clock and flip it over to "off" rather than hit the snooze button for over an hour. Waking up when one is choking on one's own mucous, cannot breathe through either nostril, and suffering from Day Two of the Evil Woman Pains is a whole other story- one ( Read more... )

Dear Missouri and Virginia ( Read more... )

Last night was beautiful. I curled up on the floor with a bajillion pillows, ordered a pizza, and watched my TV shows- all of which were new. So needed. It feels like last weekend was a million years ago ( Read more... )

I really, really want a catNow that that's off my chest, I attended my first demonstration today. Or whatever it was. My boss, Aimee, put on a mini candle light vigil in honor of the school shootings last month and to push for stricter gun laws. She asked me to go, and being the dedicated nanny and bleeding heart liberal I am, I told her I'd go ( Read more... )