The Ho Ho Ho Guy

What do you think about Santa? Carrie wrote a great post about him at Seattle Mom Blogs. My friends talk about him a lot and goodness knows Laylee can’t say enough about him.
I’m talking about him over at Parenting today and I’d love to have your opinion.

Filed under: holidays, parenting

Miffy Winner

We have a winner for the big fat giant mother of a Miffy.

And the prize goes to Veronica Mitchell from one of my favorite recent blog finds Toddled Dredge. She says it’s for her 4-year-old but I have my doubts about that.

Filed under: Blogging, contests

Water Torture is for Sissies

If you really want to wreak havoc with your mortal enemies’ psyches, pump their house full of rabid fruit flies that have no identifiable nesting ground or food source.
The flies will billow in clouds around their heads driving them to:
-flail their arms around spasmodically
-clap loudly at random times
-hit themselves
-scream at invisible flying specs of annoyance
-repeatedly [...]

Filed under: all about me, blick, domesticality, world domination

More Thoughts on the ER

Well after reading your comments today, I checked back into the “male nurse” fiasco and discovered that he is actually a Nurse Practitioner so I feel a little sheepish. I feel much more calm after letting it sit for another 24 hours. Do you ever go back and read a blog post and [...]

Filed under: around town, near-death

Gender Roles in the ER

On Sunday Laylee was in agony-induced meltdown mode over a sore neck which got more and more stiff as the day wore on. By noon she was unable to turn her head at all and sobbing every time we moved her an inch. Worried that the stiff neck might be indicative of the [...]

Filed under: around town, kid stuff, near-death, women

Ty’s Toy Giveaway – AKA – This is About a Giant Miffy

When I got a message in my inbox with the subject line – Re: This is About a Giant Miffy – my first thought was that it was a creatively euphemized inappropriate spam email. Then I noticed it came from my beloved Mir so I decided to keep reading about this here Giant Miffy. [...]

Filed under: contests, fun, fun, fun, shopping

Smells Like December

I’m starting to sense that it may be December. This sensation is apropos and in regards to the following significant significations:
1. Magoo will not stop with the “jiggy bells.” Yep. He really calls them that.

2. When we breathe out through our mouths, it makes all kinds of crazy “foagk.” [...]

Filed under: fun, fun, fun, holidays, kid stuff