he would've seen me still in my awesome apron, made by my great-grama. I don't wear them often, but yesterday I baked 2 batches of brownies (one with mint extract added; one with white chips added) fried up some bacon for sandwiches, and made 5784924576 pickled beets, because that's how many beets my husband bought. too bad I don't have any cute ( Read more... )

"are you dad, mom?"

"uhh... no."

"are you mom?"

"yeah."

"oh."

alas, I won't be moving to alaska after all. the other day, Dietrich came in with his hands covered with blisters. it looked just like poison ivy. I supposed we probably didn't have poison ivy in the back yard, so I freaked out thinking he was just alergic to some normal plant and I'd have to keep in in all summer or move to alaska. but then we ( Read more... )

happy 5th birthday Germaine! and happy 1st birthday Ellie!

not really sure what a "yent" is, but it's some measure of time in Linus Land. he's always talking about things he's done "yents ago". I don't know if it's like a combination of years and months, or of yesterday and ____ ago, or what.

also, Linus doesn't "have to" do things. he must do them. funniest is when he's playing, then all of a sudden jump ( Read more... )

I will REQUIRE them to use proper grammar, spelling*, and punctuation** at all times. AND I WILL CHECK UP ON THEM.

*except for proper capitalization, since I don't even use that.
**this includes not ending every sentence with an exclamation point (!)

Chris is working today, 12-hour shift.

half the kids and I are sick... I have no voice.

it's a good thing we weren't planning much entertaining for the day...

not that I know what he looks like, but we were in downtown Chicago on monday, and a bunch of police cars and black SUVs went by, and everyone said Joe Biden was rather conspicuously in one of the windows. hm ( Read more... )

actually, St. Nicholas' Day was saturday, but I haven't been online since then, so ( Read more... )

halloween was great. we couldn't have had better weather. it was almost hot! which was a nice surprise, after it snowed on monday :P also, I spent almost no money on costumes this year. two of the kids used last years' and the third wore a hand me down from chris's little cousins. chris and I dressed up as well, but chris re-hashed an old costume, ( Read more... )