I got back home safely yesterday, just later than planned after a late departure since Frontier held the plane at the gate to accommodate passengers coming from a connecting flight that arrived late, then waiting in the shuttle at the airport afterward for another passenger heading in my direction on the shared shuttle service I booked to get home ( Read more... )

I'll be returning to Dallas on Saturday. My frozen toes are glad since the snow line briefly came down to 8000 feet a few nights ago, but I still haven't cracked the stored stuff I meant to get a dent in paring back on during this trip. iconoplast, let me know when you'd like to pick up toddler stuff; I'll call you if I don't hear from you by Tuesday or so ( Read more... )

Gimping along on limited music I was thrilled to find a bunch of TMBG because really, why live if you can't sing along with the Johns ( Read more... )

Laurel's been conditionally accepted into the district-level gifted program this fall. She has to catch up in math to beginning double-digit multiplication and more consistently carry numbers in addition and multiplication ( Read more... )

Those of you that pass through my neighborhood have probably seen the closed road adjacent to the school. (The city public works site says it's for road construction. My understanding is that they're reworking drainage into the wetland/creek between the school and the road because the road is prone to flooding after heavy rains ( Read more... )

may_lyn mentioned I hadn't posted pictures lately, so here's a bunch of them: Laurel swimming after losing her first tooth, the messages she wrote on Easter eggs, a quick icing job I did on a cake, and a couple of photos from last week's first grade field trip to the Dallas Zoo. (We're going to the zoo again in a few weeks with my Cub Scout den, so I'll ( Read more... )

A painfully cute Laurel moment: I knit a small handled bag and hung it on her doorknob to find. She promptly filled it with a toy cell phone, a small stuffed dog and her change purse. When I asked her how she chose the items she put in it, she replied, "For my family."

This has been the weirdest Valentine's Day yet. I bought a dozen roses at cost yesterday to close out the balance for the individual roses our pack sold at the school choir performance last night (they're singing at the Texas Music Educators Association convention tomorrow in San Antonio) and found when I got home that Vogon had bought a dozen ( Read more... )

I haven't been reading LJ lately because I've been pretty busy in between being sick. Hopefully today's warmth and sun burned out that lingering cough so I'm not feeling like the weather when the next cold front comes through ( Read more... )

Here's photographic evidence of what Laurel did to her hair and an after photo to share how nicely the stylist was able to even it out.

( Before and after of Laurel's self-haircut, 108kb .jpg )