Month: July 2007

I finished the book. Wow. Review to come, but…wow. At some point I’ll sit down and read all 7 in a row, but for now, I’m still digesting book 7. Wow.

I got hooked on Harry Potter seven years ago when I was teaching. I bought the first book at the school’s Scholastic book fair, and then it sat for several months. I thought it was just a kid’s book; I …

… AKA the thirteen thoughts that are getting me through the next five weeks without going completely batsnot. 1. I will sit in complete silence and contemplate my navel. This may take weeks. 2. I will get caught up on …

For the longest time I tried to keep all the bath toys in a suction cup mesh bag stuck to the wall of the tub. It didn’t work; we would wake up in the middle of the night to a …

I just performed a dangerous double stuffingectomy on the boys’ lovies. Thankfully, both Puppy and Buddy came through the procedure just fine. They have matching scars on their backs, but other than that, no ill effects. Though Puppy and Buddy …

Karen over at PediaScribe is hosting a contest about your dirtiest story. My life has been crazy enough that I’m just now getting to this (yeah, it ends this afternoon), but I had the perfect story come screaming to the …

Do you eat sugary cereal? I never got the stuff growing up, the closest was Cinnamon Life. Except when we went to Grandma’s house. Then we got the kid stuff. The little single-serving boxes of sugar cereal were always in …

Yesterday may have been Friday the 13th, but we didn’t notice around here. It was a very lucky day; J turned 3 yesterday. He reminded us for days, weeks even. He went around singing a cute little ditty of “Happy …

Oh, I thought I was sooo good. Sooo good with the computer, with the saving and the backing up and the being careful. I thought I had saved my bookmarks with all my blogs on them. I was wrong. My …

I used to really keep a clean house. My college roommates loved me for it; I would actually scrub the floor. Hated to have my feet stick to it. Even in grad school, while Tom worked, I’d take study breaks …