CAST: a 6 year old girl, a 4 year old girl, a 3 year old boy, and a 1 year old boy, hereafter referred to as 6g, 4g, 3b, and 1b ( Read more... )

Your EQ is 127 50 or less: Thanks for answering honestly. Now get yourself a shrink, quick ( Read more... )

So the last day of 1st grade was Friday, and Grace is going to "Dharma Camp" this week. Another mother in our school carpool goes to a Buddhist temple, and when she sent out the email letting the rest of us know about her temple's daycamp, frankly we all snickered a bit. Pretty much like I snickered when she was invited to Vacation Bible School at ( Read more... )

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We just got back from the ER, about an hour ago. Davis had a febrile seizure. FUCKING SCARY. He was nursing, and I thought he had fallen asleep because his head kind of rolled back, but when I looked down at him I saw that his eyes were open and his face was rigidly locked into a grimace. I yelled his name and tried to get him to respond to me and ( Read more... )

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This morning I was helping Grace get ready for school, and she was flipping through the kid presets on our snazzy new digital cable thingamabob. (We got cable phone, and since it was only going to be like $5 more per month to upgrade to digital cable, I went for it. So now we have about a hundred more channels, and we can watch PBS Kids at 2am if ( Read more... )

You know that "100 Years" song, by Five for Fighting? Emotional claptrap, right? I love it. I always cry at the end. (I don't always cry at the credit card commercial, though ( Read more... )

It was a remarkably normal visit. The only remotely wacky thing he said was when I remarked on how independant and headstrong Davis is becoming, he reminded me that the astrological chart thingie he bought for Davis when he was born said exactly that. (I refrained from pointing out that nearly all toddlers are independant and headstrong.) (PS, yeah ( Read more... )

I seem to be running a deficit of genuine self-disclosure in LJ form. I just realized that my last few entries have been test results, which may give the illusion of self-disclosure, but since they come from an outside source it's passive self-disclosure at best. Isn't that the reason we have LiveJournals? To burp our innermost thoughts and ( Read more... )