A most accusatory conversation

Since N was in Florida for a week, the kids were very excited to see him on Tuesday evening.  Wednesday he dropped them off at school and told Miss T that he would pick her up after work.  However, he got bogged down in first-day-back mess, so asked me to get her instead.  She’ll be […]

FIRE!*

It’s been so long since I posted here that I forgot how to log in.  Well, in the interest of full disclosure: the blog redesign took the admin link off my home page and I didn’t know the web address to get in through the back door so N had to text it to me […]

Kicking the habit

We’ve been trying to break Miss T of her pervasive home paci habit for quite a while now (she doesn’t use one at school).  And by “we” I mean me, N and her grandmothers.  But mostly me, because it drives me half insane to listen to her talk around it.  You’d think that having a […]

A conversation with Miss T

Subtitled: This is what they’re teaching in the three-year-old class? Sub-subtitled: Anatomy 101, for those who are in need of a refresher course* Tonight we were doing the usual pre-bath routine – the one where I wait for what seems like an eternity for Miss T to…finish her business.  We’ve found it speeds the process […]

My Christmas vacation, in numbers and iPhone pictures

Number of separate family celebrations attended: 2 Number of nights I spent sleeping on a slowly-deflating air mattress in my parents’ study: 4 Number of times each night Miss T rolled off her pallet and into the closet doors: 1 Number of Dora the Explorer-themed gifts received by Miss T for either Christmas or birthday: […]