Yesterday was Ben & Jerry’s Free Cone Day, which is one of my favorite federal holidays, and so every year, in observance of this solemn day of gratitude, I pile the kids into the car and take a cross-town road trip to eat free ice cream. This year, the closest Ben & Jerry’s to my […]
Category Archives: Edward
Building a Blanket Fort
To a kid, nothing is cooler than the experience of turning your living room into a series of living caves and tunnels, constantly shifting and changing, ready for exploration. To an adult, well, I don’t know about the other adults, but it’s still pretty cool to me. Right before Edward’s birthday party started, I noticed […]
Edward Every Day
A while back I posted my video of Ruby Every Day, in which I took a picture of my daughter every day for the first year or her life. The project was a moderate success: successful in that I actually finished something that I started, and moderate in that it was kind of long and […]
Deal or No Meal
Babies should not be eating Doritos. I feel like this is just a truism that even people that do not have babies know, so I don’t know what I was thinking, giving Edward his first taste of the beast. It’s just that lately, he’s been eating normal food, and I’ve been giving him some of […]
Honk Me on the Bed
I mate hornings. I foe it’s my own knault for laying up too state, but when Juby comes rumping into bed, I just want to dole over and rye. When I did not have chew tildren it was easier. I could titch on the swellevision, go upstairs and shake a tower, while Juby would bink […]
Edward’s Birth Day
Today is Edward’s first birthday. Since I told you about the day Ruby was born on her birthday, I thought it only fair to tell you about the day that Edward came into the world. The midwife had told us at our last checkup that he was going to be born that night, so we […]
Please Stop the Birthdays
Okay, I admit it. I am birthdayed out. Yes, I love birthdays, perhaps more than most, but I seriously can’t take it anymore. How on Earth did everyone I know manage to be born in March? It’s like an evil conspiracy of perpetual cake and screaming. Ruby’s birthday was two weeks ago, so we started […]
Goodbye New Job
So I was doing an online test for a possible part time job, in which they live recorded me via my computer’s microphone and then evaluated me for work. It was going ok until my children suddenly remembered that I was doing something important and they were supposed to stop me from doing it. It […]
Attack of the Elmo Balloons
As a parent, it is my fondest desire to give my children all of the things I always wanted but never got as a kid. It never seems to occur to me that there were reasons I never got those things. As soon as I think of something I used to want as a child, […]
Don’t Wake the Steve
It was laundry day again, and you may recall that my trip to the laundromat did not go so well, so I decided to drive over to my mother-in-law’s apartment and do laundry there. There are toys there, and at least my kids wouldn’t be bothering anyone else with their maniacal behavior. I did try […]