Mimiboo Too

I am so burned out on this election, but it does still offer some teachable moments. I had MSNBC on this morning while I was getting ready for work (apparently because I was in a masochistic mood) and Mimi wandered through in search of breakfast.
“Hey, it’s that one guy that we like!”
“Which one?”
“You know, the [...]

Shit, it’s November? When did that happen? A post a day? Can I do it? We’ll see!
Halloween was good. It was super-warm, still in the 60s by 6 pm. The girls had fun, trick-or-treating in our still relatively new neighborhood was a blast, we went through nearly all of two huge bags of candy, and [...]

Let’s all just try to appreciate the cuteness and not think about how much the orthodontist is going to LOOOOOVE me in a few years.

Broke up approximately 173 “mine/no mine!” squabbles.
Ignored about 317 other squabbles of the “Boo’s looking at me funny! / Boo’s touching my stuff! / Boo’s drinking my apple juice!” variety.
Played 7 or 8 games of Scramble on Facebook while ignoring the above.
Gave approximately 17 lectures of the “it doesn’t matter who’s first” variety, 0% of [...]

Yesterday’s Halloween festivites at the bookstore were not the most successful (or well organized), people got cranky, and I didn’t get a lot of pictures. More to come!
Am off to tackle the basement — need to find coats and sweaters for everyone — since Nat (17-year-old very brave cousin) is here to babysit/child-wrangle.
Later!