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Archive for September, 2008

Music: Brett Dennen. Esp. Desert Sunrise, Ain’t No Reason, She’s Mine, Darlin’ Do Not Fear, So Long Sweet Misery Except when I was jogging this morning.  Then it was The Distance.  Fantastic for jogging. Doing: Schooling the kiddos.  Being glad that I got up this morning to walk/jog.  Trying to figure out the schedules for [...]

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No, not that kind of gas station.  Though, with boys, it’s easy to see how you’d be mistaken. It actually started when I was shaving my legs, a rare but still not non-existent occurrence (until winter, that is).  Luke, the 3 year old, peeked in with a very baffled look on his face. “Mommy, what [...]

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It’s because I laughed…

So, day before yesterday, the local newscaster was all, “And Ike will be headed our way tomorrow.”  And I laughed.  Because she said it as if we were going to have a hurricane.  And we live in Ohio.  And, in case you weren’t quite sure, we don’t get hurricanes in Ohio.  And I thought it [...]

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Just remember….

…when you choose to lie to your kids (tell them a fib, deceive them, whatever) about the way something is or why a certain place is dangerous and that’s why they can’t go there, realize that they’re going to repeat this as truth to everyone they talk to. And there are those irritatingly legalistic kids [...]

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Boys

In the van on the way to Kings Island: Jake (to the other kids): If you’re naked and you do something bad and the police catch you, they will give you a ticket and stick it to your pee-pee. Bald Man: No they won’t, Jake. Jake: Okay.  I was just guessin’.

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This is it….the last night of summer break.  Samantha and I start school officially again tomorrow.  (I decided it was probably a federal offense to have school on Labor Day or something, so it worked to my benefit to not have to start on a Monday). I decided to also start Jake in Kindergarten.  No, [...]

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I’ve spent much of Labor Day weekend in the attic.  The attic that you could only barely walk around in 3 days ago.  The attic that holds most of everything extra that Bald Man and I have accumulated in our adulthood (much of it childhood memorbilia that our parents wanted out of their houses).  The [...]

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Update/Clarification: Make sure to read Jackie’s comment.  I didn’t really get the message across in the post.  And then help her out.  And I’ll be thinking, too.   Since she won’t move to Ohio.  (I can’t blame her, though I’d love it. ) What’s she gonna do with all that junk…all that junk….ahem…oh….wait…. Jackie’s restless.  [...]

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