Mimiboo Too

We got the results of Mimi’s “psychological evaluation” last night, which was an intensive 10-12 hour process, divided into 2-hour blocks, of a variety of personality, diagnostic, and behavioral tests, as well as interviews with us and Mimi and behavioral observations. We were a little blindsided by some of the results, although for the most [...]

This counts, right? I AM TOTALLY BLOGGING ON MONDAY EVEN THOUGH IT’S LIEK 11:59 AND I JUST REMEMBERED ABOUT STUPID NABLOP BECAUSE I HAVE HAD A KILLER HEADACHE ALL DAY AND THE GIRLS WERE TRYING TO MURDER EACH OTHER RIGHT UP UNTIL BEDTIME AND I HAVE BEEN SITTING ON THE COUCH SINCE THEN TOTALLY VEGGING [...]

I know that’s a horrible thing to say, particularly when one has adopted a child. But it has been one of those weekends that actually makes me glad tomorrow is Monday and I can go to work. Holy cow. A sample of the encounters I have had with my children this weekend:
Me: Mimi, please help [...]

If I ever make noises about taking the kids to get pictures done ever again, someone needs to come over here and smack me. Seriously. I don’t know what I was thinking. ALL THREE KIDS. I know.
Some of them looked, on the little screen, like maybe they came out ok, but I still don’t know [...]

And now for something absolutley unrelated to politics: the return of GRUMPY GRAMMAR GIRL! Whoo-ah!
I suppose when one has only heard something spoken aloud, and not seen it written down, it’s easy to mishear, misunderstand and misinterpret the phrase. I realize too that lots of people don’t read, and that for the average American, language [...]