Today, the kids and I went to church and whoever picked the hymns was in a traditional mood. Amazing Grace, Faith of Our Fathers, and Be Thou My Vision. Only it was mildly re-worded. (scowl) I am all happy to sing entirely new words to hymns I know, but mild alteration screws me up and ruffles me. In this hymnal, it is "Be Now My Vision". Instead ( Read more... )

Right at 7:30, Baz came and crawled in bed with me. He put his arms around my neck and told me that he was happy to be home because that meant he got to snuggle with me. I saved the men's gymnastics to watch with him (and Kay, if she wants ( Read more... )

I talked to Baz last night. I always wonder if they sound so mature on the phone because I mentally regress them while they're gone, or if they do just experience huge leaps in elocution and sentence complexity once in a while. Earlier in the week when I talked to Kay, it took me three sentences to realize that she was not her brother. It will be ( Read more... )

As inevitably happens in my sewing groups, the topic finally came around to age, and we determined that I am a mere pup, and young enough to be everyone's daughter, grand-daughter, or (technicially) great-grandaughter. Yes, church ladies, I am young. Move on. This effect was even more exaggerated when I was going to quilting groups at 24 and 25. ( Read more... )

( kids, fair, movies )

After work, I walked over to the Seattle Center and met sil and the kids at the International Fountain. On hot days, it is a welter of people dashing in and out of the gouts of water. This time, I noticed how very accessible it is -- there is a zero barrier entrance, and a ramp down to the very base of the fountain. The floor of the fountain is ( Read more... )

( in which our heroine takes a lot of naps )

Yesterday, I got comics in the mail, and then comics from the file. Mmmm. Lucky me ( Read more... )

We've been watching either Batman or Superman animated cartoons with the kids. The joy of cable recorders. So two Superman episodes today, one that involved an armoured symbiotic suit of armor manufactured by LexCorp (yeah, how could that go wrong), and one "The Prometheon", about a vast golem that runs on heat (goodness, how could THAT go wrong ( Read more... )

( Full of parental bragging, you've been warned )