“Mama. Girls love fruit and boys love cereal. And. Girls and boys love wood floors.” Illustration from Veer
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Remember the sand angels from a week ago? Ha ha, laugh no more! Today, the girls built their first ever snowman snow princess! Pay no attention to all the grass you see underfoot. I promise there was snow there (almost 2 inches they say!) an hour before this picture was taken, before it started raining. So please, in your mind, pretend we just laid out an astroturf mat to help the girls acclimate to this strange foreign substance. While we were getting them dressed (because 4-yr-olds headed out to play in the first snow of the year do not dress…
I was just trying to leave a comment on a blogger blog and the above claptrap is what I got as my supersecret word verification cryptogram. WTF blogger? Do you resent us? Is this a competitive thing? You’re all, “Okay people. Fine. You may think you’re smarter than the spam generators, but let’s see you read this. Heh heh.” And we’re all, “Jeezeree Blogger! Lighten up.” And you’re all, “Don’t tell me to lighten up. You lighten up.” And we’re all, “Whatevs. I’m done anyway.” And you’re all, “No. Wait. Come back. You got 37 more profile views! Your blog…
My friend Shelly provides me with a constant stream of clever ideas and sweet things to look at. Her latest passalong is a fabulous idea for teaching kids to wash their hands: SquidSoap. When you push down on the dispenser, you get a little ink mark on your hand. Then you wash your hands until the ink mark disappears. 1. 2. 3. 4. So brilliant it makes you slap your forehead and say Doh! Just make sure you’ve washed that ink spot off your hand first.
In no particular order: – We went out last weekend to a friend’s 40th birthday party and, although I’m still a few years away from that big celebration myself, I have to admit to being skeptical that the words “fortieth birthday” will ever apply to me. – I woke up terribly hungover the next day, but I swear I don’t think I had the kind of fun the night before that warranted it. How much of a bummer is that? The hangover without the fun. Is that part of getting closer to 40? If so — lord I do not…
The day we made sand angels out at Latta Plantation, the girls were really hooked into Bob. They wanted to do everything he did. So when Bob ran and jumped up on the tall skinny tree stump near our picnic table, Lucy wanted to climb up there with him. Then later, while the girls and I were playing in the sand, Bob lay down in the sunny sun. After a short while Zoe saw him and went over and arranged herself in his exact position. She even closed her eyes, as if she, too, understood the sheer joy of napping…
Here in North Carolina, we’ve had a couple of cold days — we’ve even had an ice storm of a sort (though storm is an awfully strong word for the shimmery slickery coating our trees got last Monday). But for the most part, we’re living proof of that deceptively happy-sounding trend called Global Warming. I mean, what could be warmer than making sand angels in January?
Ani DiFranco had a baby girl — Petah Lucia — a couple of days ago. Seems to me, motherhood just got a whole lot cooler. Congratulations Ani, but more importantly, congratulations Petah Lucia. Your mom is righteous.
I was busy last week y’all! Not only have I been Livin’ the Life™, but I’ve had work deadlines galore (hurrah for work!), and also I had my AWESOME GIG OVER AT DESIGN MOM. What a great time I had unearthing nicely designed things from the world at large, as well as showing off some of the stuff I’ve done that makes me happy. Hope you had a chance to drop in on Design Mom, whether to read my words or just to visit one of the truly great blogs out there. And if you haven’t had a chance, I…
The number of messages I just cleaned out of my spam folder (which I haven’t checked in about 3 weeks). Thank goodness for Spam Sieve, or every one of those would have ended up in my inbox and I never would have gotten to all that other stuff I had to do. (Because you just know that without that can of Spam in there, my inbox looks exactly like that.)