What if we are all just doing a good job? Seriously, what if in our working or not working status, serving frozen chicken nuggets for dinner and later than we meant to sometimes, not leaving the house until the afternoons on the weekends sometimes; the truth is we are all just doing a good job? [...]
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Putting Words in Their Mouths
I spent a good 5 minutes tonight explaining to Dylan (who is 4) what a ‘curse’ is (It is a bad word, sometimes when people get really angry…etc. etc.) only find out that he had meant a curse—like putting a curse on someone. Equally hard to explain actually. I am amazed by how many times [...]
Pit Bull?!
We got a Pit. We did. We got a Tear-Your-Face-Off-Dog. On the breed description at puppy rescue, they said things like: Cattle Dog, Boxer, Terrier Mix I guess because if you say you have a Tear Your Face Off Dog, there just aren’t going to be a lot of takers. But we did. We got [...]
Burnt Toast
Dylan’s friend greeted him this morning at the drop off with hugs and… ‘Dylan, you look like you were burned on the stove!’ “Why?” He asked ‘Because you are so brown. You look like burnt toast!’ I have the confusing perspective of being Anglo-American looking with brown kids. Dylan is the only brown kid in [...]
Rainy + Exhausted
I had the most ridiculous morning. I slept terribly + woke up exhausted. We took Chelsy to her dog training class in the pouring rain and when we showed up the two new mutts in the group were WAY worse than even she is and the barking frenzy under the stupid florescent lights of PetLand [...]
Long Live Superman II
On a rare mom’s stroll I walked into a comic book store with a friend because we had seen some action figures in the window and it is hard to get some of those particular ones (she also has a boy-same-age). When we entered in to the cool bright room and saw rows upon rows [...]
Long Live Superman
A letter came home from my son’s preschool in October. We will be celebrating Halloween with a brief parade; children may change into costumes at 11:45am. We encourage the more imaginative and creative costumes (not star wars etc.) I have a boy. When I had only a girl, I didn’t even know what the parameters [...]
Can You Hear Me Now?
I have a friend who is partially deaf and very good with the ladies. I found out after knowing him for a bit, that he mainly lip reads. Do you have any idea how focused that makes him when he is listening to you? You have never been listened to like this in your life. [...]
