Ugh, three year olds. When he good, he's awesome, but when he's not he finds my last nerve and tries it to the end. And it's only 10 am!

Tonight West spent 40 minutes crying hysterically about dinner. He wanted a grilled cheese, you see. And dinner was quesadilla. Attempts to explain that they are essentially the same thing fell on unwilling ears. He finally gave up and ate the damn quesadilla when I was about to haul him upstairs for bed without dinner (as it was bed time by the ( Read more... )

West now has a long-running, elaborate fantasy about a pet store he works in / owns. He loves talking about it and remembers weird details from one telling to the next. First it was in Boston next door to my work, but he had to move it to Beverly (because he "built roads to get to it"). Tonight he was vetoing all my book suggestions for his reading ( Read more... )

First child-free vacation, completed! We so needed some time for ourselves, and nothing says vacation like walking most of the length of Manhattan in a day.

We took the Bolt bus down on Thursday, met up A-Dot for dinner at a really nice bar, and went to see a cheap UCB improv show that was done by some of the Daily Show staff writers. We stayed ( Read more... )

Thanks to the loverly tenillypo, I got a free delivery of Hello Fresh this week, to try it out. So I figured I'd give you all a little review of it here. Why not!

Whew. After writing this I realized it got long, so ( time to do a LJ cut )

I... clearly have an online commerce problem. I just discovered Fortune Cookie Soap, which looks a lot like Lush at a lower cost. Plus, they have subscription boxes, $20 for a quarterly box of soapy products. I just really like mystery boxes of goodies delivered to me. So of course I signed up ( Read more... )

Well, apparently an oven can decide that when you turn it off you really mean CRANK IT UP ALL THE WAY AND LOCK THE DOOR. So, our oven is broken. The soonest a new one can be delivered is Friday, so this week's dinners will be interesting. I have a freezer full of food, but most of it requires the oven. Hopefully I have enough leftovers tucked away ( Read more... )

You guys, I am going to fawn about a new-ish websitey thing for a moment. I've read a ton of blogs about it, and finally decided to give Stitch Fix a try after waffling about it for like a year. It was totally worth it ( Read more... )

Walking home from the Y in WEATHER at three year old speed with constant three year old commentary about the need for water and snacks and a bench was... not my idea of a good time. (But the bit about "ooof, I need a bench!" was kind of cute, admittedly I could have used a bench at that point too ( Read more... )

West: You can't go in a mine, that's where the mummies are!