Schmoozarific!
I used to think of myself as a pretty shy person, I guess more introverted than anything. I’d be in the background a bit in social situations until I got the feel of the place, then I would open up. …
Mischief managed
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.
Radio silence
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 …
Thursday Thirteen: Things I swear to the heavens above I will do when the kids are back in school
… 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 …
WFMW: Organizing bath toys
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 …
Frankenlovies
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 …
Dirty, dirty
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 …
Fruity Pebbles are neither fruit nor pebbles. Discuss.
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 …
A very lucky day
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 …
not so tech-savvy
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 …