Happy Halloween!Just a few favorites from over the years...I hope all of you ghosts & ghouls enjoy your day! Stay safe & don't eat too much candy!Psst...and don't forget to 'fall back' tonight. Yes, that means we get an extra hour of sleep to recover from tonight's sugar high {'cause you know it's not just the kids who are gonna have one!}. … [Read more...]
quirky. the finale.
October 30, 2009 by · 1 Comment
I have bangs now. I'm still not sure if I like them {which is why you guys haven't seen a picture yet}.Listening to my son tell me he's a bad boy in Cantonese makes me giggle.As frustrated as I get with my daughter {because even at 8 years old we're already butting heads}, I see so much of me in her...and that scares me.When I get really nervous, my tongue gets all tangled up and I can't seem to speak English very well. I'm sure this will happen at tonight's bloggy meetup.Alternative rock from the 1990s makes me very happy.Funny...cooking isn't my favorite thing, but I adore cookbooks. And, speaking of cookbooks, if you're interested in winning a copy of the Pioneer Woman's cookbook then you need to go visit Rachel's blog. Hurry...she's choosing a winner on Monday.Unwelcome {& … [Read more...]
do you hear what i hear?
October 30, 2009 by · 2 Comments
Well, I don't hear a damn thing. Sort of.A long time ago, someone said 'silence is golden' and I concur. Especially after how loud my late afternoon/early evening was. I did a lot of hollerin' at my kids and I even threatened to cancel Halloween. Oh, the horror of it all.It was just one of those days, people.I want to bang my head against the wall all day while I'm at work...only to come home and feel the urge to bang my head against the wall even more. It's not always like that, but holy cow I think the puberty hormones are starting to come a lil' too early in this household {and there is only room for one Miss Crankypants in this house and that - it should come as no surprise - is moi}. But, after the "I have no problem sending you to bed hungry" speech, hiding the television remote … [Read more...]
a thousand arms.
October 28, 2009 by · 3 Comments
Aidan informed me yesterday during dinner that he sometimes wishes he had a thousand arms {don't we all?}. He said that if he had a thousand arms then he could help with things like:doing laundrywashing the dishescleaning the housepicking up toysmaking his bedpick up after the dogdust the shelvestake out the garbageBlah, blah, blah...I don't know whether I should feel flattered {because he knows that I do so much} or insulted {because sometimes I just don't do enough}. … [Read more...]
two wheels & a tooth.
October 27, 2009 by · 2 Comments
The weekend was pretty eventful for Mr. Aidan.He lost his first tooth {he's 6}. It was one of his bottom front teeth & it was loose for what seemed like forever. On Saturday morning while playing at the kitchen table it just 'popped out.' At least that is what he told me. He wanted to put it under his bed straight away -- I corrected him and told him that the tooth fairy looks under little children's pillows and not their beds for teeth.On Sunday morning, he woke up to find two crispy $1 bills under his head. He felt like the richest man in the world {oh, to be that young & carefree again!}. My parents happened to be in town {love them!} and the conversation he had with my mother - about the tooth fairy - went something like this:A: "Yeah, the tooth fairy is pretty cool."My … [Read more...]
