The next cookbook up is also Betty Crocker.

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So Baz has been trying to work his way through a Far Side collection. It is an uphill battle for the following reasons ( Read more... )

Baz and I had a conversation about the games that he found on LiveJournal. The question is, "Why is someone paying for you to play that game?". This can also be expressed as TANSTAAFL - there ain't no such thing as a free lunch ( Read more... )

Kay really does not like having her wart frozen off. Really. But they have nifty little guns now, instead of q-tips, and the pediatrician made a cool show with the rest of the liquid nitrogen in the sink ( Read more... )

LT and I were talking about pocket knives, because she got me one for Christmas this year, and I had to confess to having almost no ability to use one. We talked about when a kid should learn to use a knife, and why my kids will never be able to carry pocket knives as a matter of habit ( Read more... )

When I was 8, my baby brother was born, and I moved from northern Idaho to eastern Washington, and read 1984, but didn't understand it.

Baz just turned 8. I wonder what will happen in his life this year.

Right now, he and I are reading Cheaper by the Dozen together, and his favorite birthday present was the third Dragonbreath book, and he's ( Read more... )

I am at that uncomfortable stage of sick where I am slept out, but too stupid to do anything useful, too stupid to read anything new or watch anything I don't already know ( Read more... )

I may have just about the steadiest, most reliable 7-year-old ever ( Read more... )

Now I am having apostrophe doubt. Whatever ( Read more... )

I left work early and went to the kids' conferences. I am pleased to learn that our kids are bright, polite, and reasonably well-behaved. It's not a surprise, but it is gratifying that what we try to teach them at home is carrying over.

Kay's speech therapist commented especially on the shirt LT got her from woot:

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