It turns out we're getting a cat ( Read more... )

Well, lj officially made it impossible for me to read or write posts on my phone or iPad. It has a mobile version that is very hard to read, and won't let me switch to a desktop version. And the lj app doesn't work at all. Which means lj is barely usable for me ( Read more... )

Well, lj officially made it impossible for me to read or write posts on my phone or iPad. It has a mobile version that is very hard to read, and won't let me switch to a desktop version. And the lj app doesn't work at all. Which means lj is barely usable for me ( Read more... )

Libby seems incredibly confused about time. Here are some exchanges we've had recently:

"We'll do it later."

"Is it later now?"

Or:

"Grandma is coming on Friday."

"Is it Friday now?"

Or:

"We're going to the park tomorrow."

"When is tomorrow?"

"I… Don't know how to answer that."

Melanie started track team yesterday, and at the end of the one hour practice meet, she was crying hysterically.  She said she didn't like running and that it was too hard. And she never wanted to go again ( Read more... )

Yesterday we went to a carnival.  Now that Libby is tenuously potty trained, we always worry about when she is going to tell us she has to go ( Read more... )

Melanie made a grocery list, but the adorable part is that she spelled it "growsares".

It was so hot today that I took the kids to the pool, which I never do because the pool is so freaking cold. The water in the pool is so cold, it makes my feet go numb. But because it was so hot, the water temperature was almost tolerable.  Almost ( Read more... )

I went out to dinner with a friend of mine tonight, and while she was eating, she noticed a hair in her food that definitely wasn't hers ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago, I scheduled Libby's birthday party for June 13. It's the perfect day for a party: it's one of the two weekends surrounding her birthday, but not Father's Day weekend, it's on a Saturday so that I have Sunday to recover, and it's in the afternoon so I got the morning to prepare ( Read more... )