Grounded for Life

Last summer, when we did our painting extravaganza, M decided that he wanted his bedroom repainted too. But it took him so long to pick out a color that the weather had turned cold, and we didn’t want to paint if we couldn’t leave windows open to air things out. Long winter months went [...]

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6th grade dance

M went to a school dance last night. I drove him and 3 friends over to the school; it was very amusing to hear their conversation on the way, and realize that it primarily consisted of bathroom and fart jokes at 90 decibels. And then later another mom drove them home, which meant she got [...]

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Parenting must-have: cotton balls

If you look at most lists of “essential baby-care items,” cotton balls are on there. So I bought an entire bag when M was born, and then completely failed to figure out what I was actually supposed to use them for.
The bag languished in the bathroom cupboard for 8 years before M and I [...]

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Signs of spring

The first of the 200+ bulbs that E planted last fall have bloomed! (We hope this doesn’t make our Canadian friends start crying.)

Other signs of spring include hiking trails that are partially under water, and lots of mud.

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M is missing a body part

Actually, it looks like he’s missing 4 of them. And we’re really going to hope it stays that way.
At the orthodontist today, I was told that the X-rays show not even a hint of wisdom teeth developing in his mouth, whereas for most kids his age there would be. Instead, he appears to [...]

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Third in the nation?

According to one chart I found online, our state ranks 3rd in terms of the percentage of the population that is gay or lesbian, at 5.7%. After our various adventures this weekend, I’m thinking we’ve got to be much higher than that.
M was off camping with Scouts, so E and I started our Saturday [...]

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A boy and his food

We did our monthly household accounting last night. This involves getting a cookie tin off the top of the fridge, looking through the collected receipts in it, totaling how much we each spent on household stuff, and deciding we’re still close enough to 50/50 that we don’t need to make any adjustments for now. [...]

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