Dirty Dishes

and other negelected things

Month: October, 2005

A mind is a terrible thing to waste

I have the entire Nickelodeon cartoon line-up memorized, yet I cannot remember ONE SINGLE THING I LEARNED IN COLLEGE.

I am eventually going to have to clarify her definition of the word "jug"

“Badger, a cigarette isn’t an animal, it’s something that you jug and then it kills you.”-my daughter Sunny

Off-track blues

The school my kids go to is on a year round schedule. Not for any educational or higher philosophical purpose, but because there are absolutely too many kids that live inside the school boundaries to have them ALL fit inside the school at one time. See the Mormons have been commanded to multiply and replenish [...]

Favorite quote of the day

“Mom, please do NOT buy a llama or a zebra on the internet.”-my son Leo

I spent my morning at the dentist, how did you spend yours?

Sunny had been complaining for a few days that her tooth hurt. It was a molar with a crown that they had told us, the last time we experienced the chaotic free-for-all that is a trip to the dentist, was dying and would probably fall out. Well, it died last week sometime and decided NOT [...]

Sick, sick, and sicker

Public school should have a big disclaimer attached to it, a Surgeon Generals warning, a statement from the CDC, or something stronger than the annual blurb on the evening news, that says “WARNING, sending your children to school is like throwing them into a MASSIVE BACTERIA CESSPOOL. They will get sick every other week for [...]

There Is Beauty All Around

Fall in Little Cottonwood Canyon or A Reason Utah Doesn’t Totally Suck, take your pick

Favorite quote of the day

“Mom, muscles are chick magnets.”-my son Leo

If you don’t want to read something sappy, then you should probably skip this post

The other night Sunny asked me to tell her about the day she and her brothers were born. I’ve told her before, of course, just every so often she asks me to tell them again. She is a sweet and insightful little girl, and I think she can see that I love the telling as [...]

Favorite quote of the day

“I hope I don’t have to marry a goblin.”-my son Leo