Dirty Dishes

and other negelected things

Month: November, 2007

Understanding different relationship models

Sunny and her friend are playing with an old doll house. Being the little girls that they are, their world revolves around little furry creatures, so the tenants of this doll house are not a happy Mother, Father, and four small children with smiles permanently affixed to their plastic faces. No. Those [...]

Reasons I Love Ikea

Tongs

Lantern

Glass Jars

Posable Wooden Person

Pedant in the making

Badger has just spent about an hour creating a small world out of cardboard and clay. He jumps up and down, like a jack rabbit on speed, and shouts for Leo to hurry over and bare witness to the awesomeness of his creation.
“See, this is the hot dog stand, and this is the [...]

Winning Her Over

one day at a time.

Fall in the Rockies

can be so unpredictable.

11.8.07

It is once again off track time here in our little corner of suburbia. As I’ve mentioned before my kids go to a school that is on a year round schedule. A school that once, all the way back in ‘05, held the proud distinction of being the most populated elementary school in [...]

Black Thumb

Remember this shrub? The one of which I was so proud? The one that was alive in spite of my total gardening ignorance? That shrub?
This is what it looks like today:
It’s dead as dead can be.

Obvious

Chris stands in front of the fridge with the door wide open, desperately searching for a bottle of his One True Love: beer. Unable to find the desired object, he loudly proclaims:
“There is never any beer in this fridge, because someone drinks it too fast!”
Leo responds, completely deadpan with perfect timing:
“Ah, that would be [...]