Wayyy back when my sister and I were in high school we watched a comedic variety show (I think it was All That) where they did a skit involving an exasperated parent and their toddler. The part of the skit that we remember and still quote went thus: Toddler: I wanna go paint!Parent: Okay, let’s […]
Author Archives: Carrie
what Renton did
Earlier this evening I think I got a few people curious by tweeting that Renton did the nastiest thing ever. So nasty, in fact, that I wasn’t sure if I could write about it . . . Well, I’m over that, so if you still DON’T want to know, then read no further. Seriously. Early […]
conversation with a toddler
Last night the three of us were sitting at the dinner table together. This is actually a rare event since Lydia insists on eating right when we walk in the door after work and school, but this time she was content to sit with Steven and me while we ate our food. Lydia amused herself […]
hey honey, look! we got a survey in the mail
I started thinking about it last year. As the calendar rolled around to 2010, I started anticipating it. As news stories started popping up, trying to make something political of it, I started getting excited. It was almost time. And last week, it finally came . . . my very own questionnaire for the 2010 […]
sputnik update
Figured I’d give a little Sputnik update. He is growing, and it’s starting to get noticeable. I’ve got two pairs of ‘normal’ pants that still work for me, though one of them I have to jerryrig with hairbands, but the rest of my pants are now of the maternity sort. The saggy, baggy, want-to-hang-below-your-butt maternity […]
yo gabba gabba made me cry
Lydia has taken up a new addiction recently — the kids’ show Yo Gabba Gabba. Oh, how enthralled she is! Thankfully, it’s a pretty snazzy show and both Steven and I are able to sit through it. In fact, it can be rather entertaining. Thank God our child was not born during the Age of […]
hop back on again
This weekend has been the first nice weekend in two months and it was time to GET OUTSIDE. Yesterday Lydia went to the zoo with her cousin Elizabeth. Today the men are still working on The Project downstairs so Lydia and I went outside to enjoy the day. We took out her scoot-about tricycle that […]
ground control to major tom
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on.
general familial update
Mea culpa for the absence. My body has not enjoyed pregnancy near as much this time around, so for the last month or so I have been fighting the Virus of Death. I finally got rid of it a few weeks ago, but now I have strept throat. Again. The doctors keep telling me my […]
rainy christmas eve
It’s like a hurricane outside tonight. Hope Santa is wearing his Gore-tex. Lydia is conked out but the cats are wild as jackrabbits. No presents were eaten this year though I suspect Renton has had some nibbles of wired ribbon. We’re all ready for Christmas here. Actually, I think I’m ready for sleep.