This morning it snowed, hard – the flakes were so fat and so perfectly round that our yard looked like a little kid’s drawing of a big blobby snowstorm. All through breakfast the boys watched through the blinds. Because this is Texas and snow is always exciting, and it was a total surprise. If you [...]
Nicolaus has discovered three things this month:
1. Pronouncing the letter L
2. Vegetarianism. And like many of the vegetarians I knew in college, he’s a little unclear on how it works. The first couple of nights after dinner he declared “Look Mama! Your vegetarian ate all his MEAT.”
“Um… you know vegetarians don’t eat meat, right?”
“Well [...]
Shit shit shit shit shit. You hear of other people’s family members discovering their blog and those family members being all oh my god why are you telling the world all about that thing with the dog’s penis and your depression and my alcoholism and Susan’s nose job and everything else? Or even just haha [...]
Comments are open again. See, I upgaded to the latest version of Wordpress this week and when I did so, I somehow accidentally erased the part of the database that made my brain remember how to make a new fucking post. ALLOW comments… meaning, they are allowed.
So, to review:
I drew a nest
my children are funny
we [...]
“Nicolaus you need to pick the blocks up.”
“I don’t think so… can you clean them up?”
“No. Pick them up.”
“But I got them out!”
“We know… that’s why you need to clean them up.”
“No, that’s why you need to clean them up. I had to get them out.”
We got Nicolaus a microscope. I had a gift certificate [...]