Dirty Dishes

and other negelected things

Month: June, 2006

Sometimes life just looks more peaceful in black and white

Badger and Leo

We got the secret spot, and even Leo had a good time

Elliott took this picture while we were camping last weekend. It melts your heart, doesn’t it? He took quite a few really nice pictures that I am going to post, but it will have to wait until after Badger quits throwing his head into the floor and crying.

I think for the last line he was actually speaking to his gameboy

“Mom, you are the best mom in the world and nothing can replace you. Except you. TAKE THAT YOU SUCKER!”-my son Leo

Nutrition, Badger style

“What would you like for breakfast, Badger?”
“Ice cream”
“You can’t have ice cream, you have to have something good for you for breakfast. So what would you like?”
“My friend Jake says breakfast causes brain problems, and that I can have ice cream ANY TIME I WANT.”

Frustration

I spent about two hours writing a post yesterday, a humorous insightful pouring of my heart and soul post, that just as I was about to hit the Publish Post button Badger grabbed my arm and erased the whole thing and I must not know how to use the Recover post button because I AM [...]

Summer

Thou shalt not take the name of a bodily function in vain

My sister and the two youngest of her crew of children came and stayed with me last week. I love my sister. She is a sweet and accepting person. She never once commented on my drinking coffee, or the wine bottles that I have elegantly displayed in a rack on my [...]

The weight of the world, drift away instead

His most favorite present? The Toilet Plunger. No kidding.

Happy Birthday Badger!

Wild. Flowers.