I talked to my dad yesterday to see if he was working next Tuesday. See, our daycare provider's mother had a stroke, so sil and I performed a scramble and I left work and he went to school and it was all not as suave as a person might want. And I don't know if she'll be back next Tuesday. So I called dad ( Read more... )

2007 is a year that has steadily trended upward ( Read more... )

The following is a liveblog of the conversation currently happening in the kids' room ( Read more... )

After last night, sil voted and I agreed that getting down the steep windy roads to Wayside was not a great plan. Of course, it was all rain this morning. Whatever. I still skipped church ( Read more... )

Baz: Mommy, make Kay share the coloring book with me ( Read more... )

All through the day, while I was at work, I would get ims and calls like "have you seen the doors to my ghost trap?" and "what did you do with the cape?". I was unable to be super-useful, beacuse I didn't know. My weird locational memory only works if I actually see something ( Read more... )

Never leave the children alone with food coloring. Ever ( Read more... )

On Saturday morning, in the interest of sil getting homework done and for entirely noble and self-sacrificing reasons, I took the kids to the Puyallup Fair. I have pictures, but they are still on the camera, and not anywhere useful.
( things we did )

In which I relax, read, recreate, and sport in Cupid's grove.
( you know, stuff and things )

I started my day by lying in bed and reading a novel for a while, to stock up introvert time ( Read more... )