Fresh, Hot Wastes of Time

My seven year old is an endless source of amusement.
Last week, she managed to lose:
• Her sweater
• The shoes she wore to a birthday party
• The pants she wore to school(!) (she did come home in her Halloween costume, however)
The other day, she brought home her journal from school. One of the entries listed [...]

The other day Hub was talking to #2 daughter about her bad habit of jumping in and trying to do stuff. Like, she’ll hear the first part of the sentence “I didn’t feed the dogs today” and jump in and start to do it herself before the rest, “Because they were barfing all night [...]

Well, maybe it is, but there’s not much going on lately so I’ll just bore you.
• There’s a huge lice outbreak at the elementary school. Rumor has it that 80 kids have teh boogs. We all hate the nit comb.
• The in-laws made it through Ike okay, although they lost power for [...]

Hub swears he’s not making this up.
On a long drive with the kids the other day, he heard them playing “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Ruby Nose.” The goal was to reach across the backseat and grab their sister’s nose.
I guess with enough grabbing, the nose becomes ruby-colored?
Kids are so weird. [...]

Given my history, it’s no wonder that I’m having nightmares about my Capstone course, which is the last required course I need to graduate. One nightmare involved my completely forgetting to go to class - a perennial favorite of the dream machine in my brain. The other one last night had my professor [...]

Apparently 8 years old is when the body issues start. Jo lost a bracelet off her arm tonight. She was already tired, and it was the last straw.
“I want bigger arms! I don’t like having little thin arms!”
It’s all downhill from here.

Halloween is here, and in the air is a strong scent of bacon.
WTF? Why does the street smell like bacon? It’s been bacon-smelling since we took the kids trick or treating an hour and a half ago. Now the smell is so strong, it smells like bacon in the house.
Not that I’m [...]

While I was fixing dinner tonight:
Caroline: Mommy, your fingers look good enough to eat. But I won’t eat them.
Me: Sweetie, you’re scaring Mommy.

We’re back from Disney World, btw. It was exhausting, but fun. 11 nights on the road and in Orlando. I heart my Camelbak. Perhaps I’ll do a more detailed write-up; perhaps not. Won’t be today, anyway.
So, remember when I went all SQUEE about the movie adaptation of The Dark is [...]

The kids are with their grandparents in Houston right now. The dog is really sick. He’s got a particularly virulent form of autoimmune anemia and dogs with this condition have about a 40% survival rate. He’s been in and out of the hospital a few times over the last couple of weeks, [...]