Things I've explained to my three year old today: Don't eat dirt. Heat. Like, the Platonic ideal of heat. I resisted telling him, "To burn all this bullshit to the ground!" But I thought it. People don't like it when you spit in their mouths. Yes, even if you keep asking. What blackmail is, the … Continue reading Bats Aren’t Bugs
Parenting
Dinosaurs and CDs
{The Handsome Husband comes home from dropping the Kraken off at preschool.} HH: {pause} They were playing with these... things... I believe they're called... CDs? Me: What? HH: Yeah, they're these shiny disc things. Apparently they make really good frisbees? None of them had ever seen one before, but they're experimenting with them. I believe when I left they … Continue reading Dinosaurs and CDs
Invisible Pants
{As we drive down the freeway, from his position drinking milk in the unreachable back car seat, the Kraken decides to make an announcement.} Kraken: I made a mess! {A pause, as I ponder the ultimate helplessness of my position} Me: ...How big of a mess? A little mess? Kraken: A big mess! {Another pause, while I imagine how much … Continue reading Invisible Pants
We Live In The Future. And We’re Jerks.
We made pasta from scratch over the weekend. It took a couple of hours, start to dinner, and made an enormous, flour-y mess, mostly all over me, but also on the table, chairs, floor, maybe the walls a little bit... the Handsome Husband might have judged me. The point is, the Kraken had entirely too … Continue reading We Live In The Future. And We’re Jerks.
The Moon Landing Happened
When I was pregnant, I imagined a lot of different scenarios for how my baby was going to turn out. Maybe he wouldn't have arms, or would be a sociopath without human emotion, or maybe he'd be tone deaf and never appreciate the B-52s properly. The biggest, scariest thing I could think of, though, … Continue reading The Moon Landing Happened
A Few Quick Summaries
We read a LOT of books around here (and are known to watch the occasional tv show/movie/youtube video of fireworks). Here are a couple of summaries of some of the wee gremlin's favorites, in no particular order: Sarah & Duck: a British tv show about a girl named Sarah. She has a duck. In one … Continue reading A Few Quick Summaries
Glint of Light 