9/2/2004 10:04:49 AM|||Amy|||I've been running on batteries lately. I've just been really, really pressed for time as there seems to always be 1,001 things that are taking top priority.

Yesterday was my parent's 41st wedding anniversary. I so wish I could say that they were super-positive role models for the longevity of happy marriages. My mother is crazy. My poor father has issues of his own.

Beautiful Baby (i.e., Winston) is amazingly patient. She has, however, started taking issue with going to bed at night.



Bear has been tasked to read for 15 minutes each night, and he is given a sheaf of homework on Mondays, due on Fridays.





His first grade homework stumped both his father and I last night when we couldn't figure out what this was:



a sock puppet? an anteater? an aardvark? a dog on acid?

Monkey, our little Monkey. She is so beautiful, so precious, so unbelievably cute, such a handful.

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