I'm trying to figure out why I'm hating Thanksgiving ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday to my two girls... Amelia turned six last Tuesday, Wilhelmina turns three this coming Thursday, and today was their party, where I got almost no pictures except outside at the swingset (which we got up, finally, last night. Instead of cleaning the house).

Here's a link to what pictures I did take:



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Wilhelmina, sitting on my lap, just said, "fuck!"

"fuck?" I asked.

"fuck!"

"what's that mean?", I asked.

"it mean... your puter not working."

Oh, golly. Public Domain audio books. http://www.librivox.org

I'm listening to Alice In Wonderland right now.

I want to pick out like 20 hours of good, well-read books (some seem better read than others) and go on a road-trip. Drive and listen. Pretty sure the kids would be silent.

I picked up a book at the library today, Cutting Your Family's Hair, which I thought was for me but Amelia had other ideas and has been curled up with it all evening, drawing pictures of hair accessories, styles she'd like, the parts to the various natural hair products it has recipes for, etc. Then she brought this to me to send to Katie, and it's ( Read more... )

Halloween Costumes, v1 (September):



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Except the rest of our lives ( Read more... )