Our furnace is broken, and it's so cold. It's 52 in the house right now. Sarah slept with us last night and she was still cold. The guy came out and looked at it, and apparently the furnace needs a new circuit board and he has to order it ( Read more... )

Sarah in the back yard, on her trike:

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I have been eaten
by my work
and I miss
my child

the child
who won't
stay little

Forgive me
you are delicious
baby
so sweet, so small.

--with my deepest and most profuse apologies to the late Mr. Williams.

Sarah: Knock knock ( Read more... )

Career advice from a toddler:

kelly: also, this morning i was getting ready for work and i was wearing undies and my t-shirt and drying my hair. and sarah said "mama, you look super-beautiful but you're missing something."

kelly: and i said "what am i missing?" and she said "pants, mama. don't forget to wear pants to your work!"

Oh, geezo flip. We just found an awesome babysitter and now she's gone and got cast in a show and can't sit any more.

Why can't we keep a sitter? We pay well! We feed them, whatever they want! We pick you up and drop you off! Please, sitter, just stay.

Sigh.

Would someone like to come take Sarah for a couple of hours? She is making both Peter and I nuts. And we weren't even drinking last night.

Ten years ago tonight was my first night in my new apartment in San Mateo. I had just moved out of the house I shared with my ex, Dave, and I drove my stuff down in a rental truck and moved into my little (500 square feet) apartment and cuddled up on my futon and watched TV and waited for the world to end. I wondered what the fuck I was doing and ( Read more... )

You know what's ten times more awesome than getting presents from Santa ( Read more... )

I wish I had someone who would come and unpack boxes with me. Now one of us unpacks and one of us watches Sarah, and I feel like this would be less of a shitty job with company.

I used to have friends in Florida with whom I could do stuff like this, but either we're not friends any longer or they're far away, and I miss them sometimes. It's