SillyBilly has had a permanent tooth erupting for the last few weeks. It was there, coming up quite shyly behind his slightly loose milk tooth, right in the bottom front. Today the dentist pulled that little shy milk tooth, plus the two next to it for good measure, to allow the permanent teeth to settle [...]
For a morning so quiet you could hear the proverbial dropping pin, even on a weekday when the kids usually get up early and sound like a ravening mob:
LEGOs.
The kids have been briefly exposed to LEGOs a few times, mostly at Nana’s house on vacation. We’ve resisted their siren call (and it required resistance, both [...]
We made it to California in one piece (each). The flight was fine, the road traffic was fine, and yet we were completely exhausted by the end of the day. Counting the hours in CA time, we got up at 2 am and went to bed that night at 10 pm. ZZZZZZZZZZ.
To economize and because [...]
My brain is feeling alternately empty and overly full. We’re going on a vacation to California this weekend, so I’m full of lists and plans and things to do. Which has made my brain seemingly empty of much else.
I had a post cooking in there about education based on an interesting thread on an editing [...]
Recently I commented on someone’s blog that I didn’t know what “3-4 hours to myself” was–meaning, I don’t usually get time on the weekends to do something fun or restful by myself. (Though that did happen last weekend, after I had a very sleepless night and Papa took the kids out for the afternoon the [...]
Well, things have been really quiet here in blogland. We spent 7 days in New Hampshire with Grammy and Grandpa, which was great overall.
However we all got some sort of stomach flu, so that at any one point in time at least one of us had either vomiting or diarrhea. Luckily on Christmas [...]
We like to expose the Huntlings to many cultures and religions, so they’re familiar with Jesus and Buddha (I have to read up a bit more on Mohammed), Christmas and Hannukah, etc.
Yet the following comment from Napoleona still amazed me:
We’re sitting at the dinner table, talking about nothing in particular that I can remember, when [...]
I just read about the incoming Muslim Congressman who is already under fire because he wants to carry a Koran at his swearing-in ceremony. I can’t help but comment.Asking a Muslim to swear an oath on a Christian Bible would be completely illogical, because the Bible is not sacred to Muslims.
Now, we here in [...]
On Sunday we went to see the Statue of Liberty. Or, as I found out, the statue entitled, “Liberty Enlightening the World”.
Oh, the irony.
I had a hard time not getting completely choked up looking at that big green mama. It’s an amazing sight. That is one strong arm holding up a beacon [...]
When I was gainfully employed at the cube farm, my level of success was easy to ascertain. Did I get a pay raise or promotion? Did my staff’s production and accuracy increase? Did I finish my to-do list for the day? Were my customers happy?
As an at-home parent with two squirmy, [...]
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