Girl Child likes to fish, and this is a good time of the year for it, so I have been driving her to her various fishing spots all over town in the last few weeks. I usually sit in the car or my folding camping chair while she is fishing, and I’ve come to appreciate…
Category: parenting.
christmas rituals.
Girl child relaying her order form to Helper Santa #2,171. She asked for, and I am not making this up, “a real invisibility cloak that also lets you fly.” While I doubt the instant availability of such an item in local stores (or even on Amazon Prime), I have to admire her ability to…
on hitting your children.
“My parents spanked me, and I turned out okay!” God, how I loathe this argument in favor of corporal punishment. I wasn’t spanked as a child. If someone had set up a nanny cam in our home between the time I was in, oh, first grade, and the time my mother finally left the no-good…
the considerable awesomeness of rainbows.
Two weeks until school starts again. My weirdo offspring are EXCITED about the start of school. I am planning to have their DNA tested next week. We went to Canobie Lake last week. It's an amusement park in southern NH–not quite Six Flags, but pretty decent, and manageable in one day unlike, say, the Rat…
an educational tale of woe.
On Friday, a certain little daughter-heir here at Castle Frostbite was dragging her feet at breakfast. She failed to heed multiple warnings to finish eating and get dressed lest the carriage to Splash Camp leave without her in it. And lo, the time to depart came, and the daughter-heir was not yet in her garments…
ham and cheese.
The goober on the left has her last day of Kindergarten today. The goober on the right has his last day of second grade. Kids in Upper Cryogenica have to make up lots of snow days, which in some years can mean they won’t graduate until late July. These kids? They’re freaks of nature….
lyra, age 6.
People of Earth! Your tiny Empress turns six years old today. <insert obligatory kvetching about how time flies, something something diapers blah blah before you know it &etc.> The tiny Empress has really made strides this year socially. She’s been in Kindergarten since July, and she loves it with a fierce, white-hot intensity. That kid…
monday morning post-pinkie pie party action report.
It’s Monday, and the house is QUIET. The dogs are snoozing in front of the pellet stove, which we had to turn on again last night because the temperature was predicted to dip down to freezing overnight. That marks the first day of the year when we had to run the pellet stove and the…
for the dads.
I Carry Your Heart With Me from Rishi Kaneria on Vimeo. Love the video; hate the guy who made it for setting the bar for home movies so damn high. Jerk.
in new hampshire, even our playgrounds are harsh.
Girl Child punchi-sized her face on the school playground yesterday by running around WITH HER EYES CLOSED WHILE MEOWING. Now her upper lip is about the size of a Jeep Wrangler tire, and she doesn’t want to eat solid foods. Good thing she had a dentist appointment this morning anyway. I know it’s totally un-American…