Kangatopia

My darling little Monkey has lost her four front teeth, top and bottom, over a period of about a week. First her bottom right, then her bottom left, followed by her top left on Thanksgiving (thanks again, Auntie Lisa!) and finally her top right came out yesterday. We tell her she looks like [...]

It occurred to me today that I didn’t bother to write a review of Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium. The problem I have with recapping a movie I’ve seen with my kids is that I never actually pay a lot of attention to the movie. More often, I am concerned with making sure the [...]

It’s the holiday season, and this means, usually, that lots of kid friendly movies are to be released at the theaters. The ones queuing up for this year- Enchanted, Fred Claus, Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium – are ones that Shep and I have agreed that we wouldn’t mind taking the kids to see. [...]

“To thee, O God, we turn for peace; but grant us, too, the blessed assurance that nothing shall deprive us of that peace, neither ourselves, nor our foolish, earthly desires, nor my wild longings, nor the anxious cravings of my heart.” -Soren Kierkegaard
Every once in a while my kids will say something that’s [...]

Their father took this picture, and I’m wondering if they posed like that on their own. My sister called this the “Paris Hilton poses”. Winston is a Monkey see, Monkey do kind of girl, and Monkey is definitely a super competitive, I’m going to eat your head for lunch but I’ll do it [...]

I made my first real adult purchase of furniture last night in the form of a used, but in great shape, cream colored leather sofa and matching chair. We dropped it off at the new house, and that’s when it sunk in that now that I have this thing of my own – I [...]

as in one that comes to visit but won’t go away again. It’s developing odd little characteristics. Now, when I attempt to draw a deep breath – which, inevitably ends in a loud cough with deep base tones – I hear a small creaking sound that could possibly be wheezing. The cough [...]

One scary dude

One sleepy fairy

Two tinkling Tinkerbells

The power of three

I just got home from another bike ride. It was possibly even more pathetic than yesterday’s, but I haven’t gotten up the motivation yet to look at the bike computer to see how I did. The trails were crowded today, and all the congestion kind of annoyed me in a debilitating, ‘God, I [...]

The cough is better this morning. Maybe that bike ride yesterday wasn’t a stupid thing to do, after all. I also ate a pint of ice cream at midnight as a means by which to soothe my throat without cough drops, and I’m considering eating another one. To hell with my cholesterol [...]