Sep
29
Laylee [to my hairdresser whom she chatted up for a full hour]: I have a sister and she’s big and big and bigger as you. Hairdresser: Really? Laylee: Yeah, and she has PINK HAIR! Hairdresser: Wow. I’d like to see her sometime. Laylee: Yeah, except you can never see her because she’s like angels. You [...]
Sep
28
I shed a little this week. Okay, I shed a lot. Laylee said, “You look like somebody else’s mom.” I wasn’t sure I was happy with the result until I walked past a mirror yesterday. Staring back at me was my face with Fräulein Maria’s haircut. This I like.Â
Sep
26
Today’s topic is brought to you by Jessica of Sweet Mama Entropy, who gave some great tips on how to organize and store toys back in March. The toys truly do seem to multiply but I don’t see them doing much to replenish my home.Â
Sep
25
Some bugs will be “sleeping” well tonight. Seeing as we live in the land of cows, sailboats and gigantic soul-sucking slugs, it is not surprising that the grass to creepy-crawly ratio in our back yard is about 6.9 to 1. That is 6.9 bugs, slugs or indescribably weird mobile mutant mucus logs per 1 blade [...]
Sep
23
I can’t explain why. I needed this boat to come back. Picture of my favorite house between here and Seattle, nowhere near the water, taken through a dirty windshield while driving.