Category Archives: random life
the not-so-secret extraction, a.k.a there will be blood
This is another random life story that got pushed aside by trips, weddings, and holidays, but I figured I’d save it until the new year. The last post was almost a novel! So. Earlier I wrote about Sam’s secret tooth extraction. Well, you know how it goes with teeth, right? They come in pairs. The […]
christmas eve update
Sam had Santa cracking up with his endless talk of Godzilla. Lydia, however, had heard it all before. Times the cat has eaten the tree and barfed: 0! Times the cat has climbed inside the tree and set Mommy’s blood pressure boiling: 7 How many times the kids have noticed the huge presents with THEIR […]
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a a = â-Ä-ä mât tÄble fäther â-Ä-ä âpple ânts eat âpples ânts . . . Wait a minute . . . Ânts don’t eat âpples in the South. Ænts eat âpples, or even eɪʌnts eat âpples. Never ânts. The Southern accent strikes again!
seven year old taco
Last week, in amongst all the Watson-disappearing business, Lydia quietly turned seven years old. Well, I say ‘quietly,’ but there was some singing involved. (Don’t watch if you are completely sick of Frozen) As Lydia has gotten older, the year-to-year changes have become more subtle. There are fewer large milestones like crawling, walking, and talking; […]
watson’s big adventure
I wiggle my feet a lot. It’s just a little habit I have. I rarely even notice when I’m doing it. It’s also genetic, apparently. One afternoon at a family get-together my half-first cousin, once removed, (yeah) noticed this and exclaimed, “Ooh, look! You’ve got the Brasher Feet, too!” The other component of Brasher Feet […]
sam says i can only have two more birthdays because he doesn’t want me to be dead
So I will be eating all the cake.
embracing the hippie culture
Y’all, April has been a busy month. I’m looking forward to June when all we’ve got to do is have three birthdays. So, let’s see. Earlier this month Steven went to a .NET conference in Portland, Oregon. Since his parents are super awesome and agreed to keep the kids, I got to tag along with […]
I promise to always turn back toward you
As part of our reading curriculum this year Lydia and I have been reading from chapter books. Actually, I’m reading them aloud and Lydia is listening. Chapter books have been a bit of a struggle with Lydia — she wants to read a book cover to cover in one sitting, so the concept of taking […]
it’s all greek to me
It seems not that long ago Lydia was a fast-moving toddler running up and down the halls with her cousin, Elizabeth. A short five or so years later, she’s writing her cousin’s name in Greek. Time is weird.