My Mom continuously serenaded me during my formative years. (Later, she apologized for this, as she was quite afraid that she had crippled my musical abilities. Her High School choir teacher had, after all, asked her to please just lip sync.) But instead of kid’s songs (although she sang those, too), her shuffle was usually […]
Christmas Posers.
Because it’s expected from every good mother… Take One: The Christmas Morning Shot. The Malcontent. The Squealer. The Writher. The Escapee. The Tackle. The He-looks-happy-but-we-really-know-he’s-just-in-the-middle-of-an-objectionary-statement. That’ll do. Because my Grandmother requested it, and she gets feisty when she wants something… Take Two: The Four Generation Shot. The One where nobody except me was aware that […]
Zulily. Really??
The Zulily iPhone App is the most dangerous thing I’ve ever installed on my phone. I was a latecomer to the wonderful world of Zulily, mainly because I was too lazy to actually go to their website. But somehow I managed to stumble across the iPhone app, and here I am. A complete Zulily addict. […]
The Star of Egypt.
“You know how they make very nice, expensive replicas of Harry Potter wands and stuff?” “Yes…” “Well, I want to get Ali something like that for Christmas – something special just from Daddy.” “Umm…a wand?” “No, no, no. Not Harry Potter – something Princess related. I want to get her a real-feeling, heavy piece of […]
Hark the Herald Legos Sing
Last year, Chris and Ali debuted their first Nativity Scene made from Legos. This year, they started earlier, planned better, and enlarged their panorama to encompass the entire city of Bethlehem. However, Lego isn’t exactly a religious company, seeing as how they have custom sets for every possible historical and fictional setting, but not a […]
A Holiday Breakdown.
You all did as I asked and chipped in your holiday tradition likes and dislikes. So now it’s my turn to fulfill my promise and provide excessively geeky charts and graphs to break down the holidays. But first, I would like to draw some conclusions and propose some Holiday Protocol Changes based on our Highly […]
Awkwardly Intense Busybody Club: Mall Task Force.
The mall becomes a dangerous place during the Christmas holidays. …Busy shoppers crowd the walkways, sending claustrophobics gasping for a tiny piece of fresh, un-fouled by Chinese-Mall-Food-Breath. …Indoor fake snow causes small children to slip and fall and break their precious limbs. …Kiosk Predators get desperate to sell their unwanted merchandise and begin shooting their […]
Uno.
Hi there, Noah here. So The Servant Who Calls Herself Mommy claims that she was already too mushy about me last week, and I’m only entitled to one mushy post per diaper size. So, says she, if I wanted a birthday post, I was going to have to jolly well write it myself. Typical – […]
A Giveaway to Give Back
The next month at our house will be an onslaught of complete and total overwhelming piles of toys and such being bestowed upon my children. December 19th is Noah’s Birthday…Then Christmas…and then January 8th is Ali’s Birthday. They will get more stuff than they possibly need for the year – and they won’t realize it, […]
Signs of Love.
Disclaimer: This post is much gooier than usual. In fact, it has a gooiness quotient of 7.65 on a scale of ten where zero is any song from Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill and ten is Butterfly Kisses. You have been warned. My friends all told me how unbelievably loving little boys are. Although it […]