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He and his eyeball are completely and totally fine

Last night AE and I had an…altercation?  That doesn’t seem like the right word, maybe “situation” is better.  Not quite as traumatic as the Great Hair Incident of 2008, but close.  He was in the bath, and I was scrubbing his hands with soap to get all the marker off.  I accidentally splashed a tiny […]

Fun chick flicks for the non-fan

I’m participating in August Movie Madness over at Daily Mish Mash, so if you like discussing movies click on over and check out the other participants! As I’ve mentioned before I love movies (DUH) but am not a fan of the traditional girly movie.  I prefer those of the action and horror genre.  (And of course married the rare […]

Every topic under the sun? CHECK.

Oh, THANK GOD IT IS MONDAY.  I am not even kidding.  AE has been out of town so much this summer it had been a while since we had to wrangle both children at home all weekend long.  GAH.  AE bounces around continuously, and since becoming accustomed to playing Wii at my in-laws house he […]

Sometimes it is hard to believe he’ll be in kindergarten

This morning AE had his mysterious kindergarten testing.  Was it placement testing?  Testing for the gifted and talented program?  Just a general assessment of his abilities?  Who the hell knows?  Not me, as they were completely not forthcoming about what it is for.  It is required of newly enrolled kindergarteners, that’s pretty much all I was told.  […]

There be spoilers, but for a really bad movie so don’t worry.

My original plan for yesterday evening was to go out for drinks with BB, but things changed and we decided to reschedule.  However, apparently my husband was not willing to deviate from his carefully planned evening of reading a boring-looking book just because I decided to stay home.  So there we sat, him reading intently […]