MaryAlice has been nursing less and less frequently since she turned two, which doesn't make me feel especially wistful, really. I'm confident that this represents the natural course for our nursing relationship (whereas, with Stuart, my pregnancy likely prompted his "self-weaning" at 15 months).

That doesn't mean that I'm not slightly offended ( Read more... )

I am unreasonably anxious that I flubbed the date on the "Stone Soup Luncheon" (whereat the children prepare a meal for parents and other adult guests), hosted by Stuart's preschool. I could have sworn the parents of the Tuesday and Thursday morning class kids were meeting at 11:00 on Thursday ( Read more... )

From Livejournal's (sponsored) "Writer's Block" prompt:

Secretariat is the impossible true story of one of the greatest athletes of all time and the extraordinary woman who believed in him...

For those of you who don't know, here is Secretariat.Oh, Writer's Block. Where do I even begin to deconstruct this? The spurious use of the term "athlete"? ( Read more... )

The Minneapolis Star Tribune is sponsoring a children's Halloween costume contest again this year, which means that I'm going to be spamming everyone with vote requests soon. So steel yourselves for that.

In the meantime, please help me decide which image of Stuart dressed as Max from Where the Wild Things Are (apparently a popular costume due to ( Read more... )

I made a Waldorf-style doll for MaryAlice's second birthday (this past Saturday). This was something I'd wanted to have finished for her birthday last year. Then it was pushed up to Christmas. It finally existed as something other than a disembodied, hairless head around early August when I decided to buckle down and complete a little bit of it ( Read more... )

Stuart: "Mommy, you are my son."

Me: "You are my son, Stuart. I'm your mommy."

Stuart: "No, no -- you are my sun. Like the song you sang to me when I was a baby. You are my sunshine/My only sunshine ... ."

Me: (*melts*)

The fact that this thread, on the IMDb message board for The Human Centipede, is ten pages long kind of warms my heart.

"Being in a human centipede is a team effort, people!"

NB: Best not to read while eating. Or, for those with weak stomachs, ever.

I watch the vegancooking community, and recently started tracking trashy_eats (after it was featured in the Community Spotlight), too.

Wow.

Talk about "... and never the twain shall meet."

"I started something/Typical me/Typical me."

( 30-day TV Survey: Days 22 - 30. Kinehora. )

This is going to sound completely whack-a-doo to folks whose thought processes aren't as rigid as mine (read: most of the population, probably), but I've had two epiphanies in the kitchen recently, in the the form of a roasting pan (if you follow that hyperlink -- oh my god! I hope mine didn't cost $199! I received it as a gift a while back) and a ( Read more... )