Dean drove Ike to a party, Mabel’s trick-or-treating with friends, and I needed to feed Hazel, so I put Rose and Henry in charge of passing out candy. They were thrilled, and soon had it down to a system: Rose would run outside and scout to see who was coming, then run back inside. “Henry, [...]
Archive for October, 2009
O Joyous Eve
October 31, 2009Overheard in a minivan
October 31, 2009Rose kept Dean well-entertained while he took her and Henry along to run some errands today. I asked him to write down what she’d said, and at first he thought he wouldn’t be able to remember it all, so I’m very grateful he was able to recall so much.
Rose: “I have a best friend in [...]
Gourmet snack (yes, this is about as gourmet as I get)
October 31, 2009I’m not normally a very creative chef (unlike my husband,) but this is an invention I’m quite proud of: Monterey Jack cheese melted onto Salsa Verde Doritos. Yum.
My family’s so lucky that I can now share my “humor” with the whole internet and not just them
October 29, 2009“Please hold . . . we are currently experiencing a high volume of hair.”
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(This cartoon may or may not have been inspired by the fact that our internet went down AGAIN, for several hours, preventing Ike from accessing his French teacher’s site to do his homework, and I finally gave up and called customer support [...]
No kidding, this is what she actually said
October 29, 20095-year-old Rose: “Daddy, can I watch TV?”
Dean: “Did you finish your breakfast?”
Rose: “I’m done with my breakfast. I’m full.”
Dean: “How much of it did you eat?”
Rose: “Fifty percent.”
Sometimes I get all ponderous and philosophical
October 27, 2009Today I have a chocolate craving the size of Manhattan. If Manhattan were a giant chocolate bar. Which it really should be, if you think about it. Or anyway, that would make an interesting movie. (But what would they sell at the concession counter? Asphalt?)
Today I’ve already eaten one regular-sized candy [...]
When I wish I hadn’t led Henry to believe I could print any coloring page he asked for
October 27, 2009“Mom, I want a uncle coloring page.”
“I don’t know how to do that.”
“It’s like have a hands and feet and a head and eyes.”
I find a picture of a man wearing a tie. “Like this?”
“That not a uncle!”
Little monsters
October 26, 2009WordPress won’t let me embed a Jibjab movie, but you can click here to see my little monsters dance.
Brotherly love
October 26, 2009This photo at Pulsipher Predilections today reminded me of this classic from my family’s archives (Isaac was 4.5, Mabel was almost 2):
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