As you can see from the icon on this post, Sarah's been a busy little fanartist since we started watching "Doctor Who." I guess you can look for her artwork and manips at Escapade in about 13 years? Eek.

( Pics or it didn't happen )

The kids have decided they are really into the new "Doctor Who." This warms the proverbial cockles of my heart because I started watching in the 80s during Five's tenure and still remember how magical it seemed back then (yes, even with the cardboard Cybermen and clunky Dalek suits.) Sarah has imprinted on Ten because those are the eps I had on ( Read more... )

Today (er, yesterday, rather...Tuesday) was Sarah's first day of kindergarten, for which she has been waiting weeks and weeks. She announced to us several days ago her intent to shake hands with all her new classmates and introduce herself. (Is anyone else thinking of that "Hi, Eric Stratton, rush chairman, damn glad to meet you" bit from Animal ( Read more... )

Not as many guests for Hunter's party as I had hoped, which means we have leftover pizza (not to mention those peanut noodles I slaved over last night for more time than I'd care to admit*) for days, but who's complaining? Hunter didn't seem to mind that most of his class didn't show up. I was very happy, though, that Eric's aunt Ellen made it ( Read more... )

I took Sarah with me to bat mitzvah rehearsal this morning as usual. Sarah's become kind of the mascot of our class, and all the other gals say it calms their nerves to see her smiling at us from the pews. She's enjoyed it too, and our teacher has even promised her a small leadership role as a reward for her attendance and good behavior; she gets ( Read more... )

My parents used to delight in telling me that my friends (including, of course, kassrachel) would never really stand by me in times of trouble and that I could only count on my family. It is both to my eternal delight and dismay that they have been proven wrong on both counts time and time again. Thank you all for your support as I move, rather quickly I'm ( Read more... )

You'll all be glad to know that I have FINALLY updated my default kid-icon. Yes, Hunter was a newborn when I made the last one. Oopsie ( Read more... )

We voted this morning and didn't leave as early as I would have liked; I had to hustle the kids into preschool and hurry to work. I barely made it to work on time, and noticed that Sarah had left her show-and-tell item in the car ( Read more... )

Okay, so Christmas basically sucked. Don't get me wrong, I got some very nice things from some very nice people, but then I was in the emergency room with Eric from 9 pm-2 am and then had to get 3 hours' sleep and go to work. (I mentioned the no paid sick time thing, right?) And it ended up being the flu, or as they call it at the hospital, " ( Read more... )

I realized yesterday that stories for yuletide were due today, not Thursday like I thought. So I stayed up way too late last night (which, in my weakened condition, meant about 10:30) hammering out a rough outline ( Read more... )