This baby is on his second day of learning to go to sleep by himself in his crib using the Modified Baby Whisperer Double Sowcow Strategizing Synergies To Move Forward technique. My evening blogging time has been seriously compromised. It took an hour and fifteen minutes to get him to sleep last nig...

I had a Mrs. Kennedy moment this morning. I woke up, rolled over, and thought, "I wonder if I'm ever going to meet juliloquy in person." I thought about the missed connections at the playground—when we said we'd be there after tee ball and then ended up skipping tee ball—and how I'd run ...

Over breakfast this morning I indulged in some idle chat with my older son. “What should we get Daddy for Christmas?” I asked. He thought for a while. “A rattle,” he said, finally. “A rattle?” “Yes. He would like that.” “Okay. What about Grandma ...

OK Rain, you win this round. I should have known it wouldn’t be so easy as to throw on my gum boots and my waterproof jacket, tuck the bairns into their wee slots in the buggy and toss a rain cover not specifically meant for that buggy over top for a quick jaunt uptown to return a DVD to the l...

Is it like this the more children you have? You just constantly wonder what the hell you were doing all the time when you had no kids / just one kid / just two kids / just 16 kids? Luckily I don’t have to wonder, I have this ‘blog to remind me what crazy trivial things I had to think abo...

Red letter night; the size - what, 8? - “full figured” Whitney won America’s Next Top Model tonight. Hoorah! But I think the best part of the show for me was when Tyra, reviewing the photos where the contestants posed in a puddle of water, said, “Oh, it’s Cletus the Fet...

I have not, in fact, taken refuge beneath the couch. I have thought of this ‘blog fondly and often. But there just isn’t time to write. I still haven’t done my taxes (and I owe money so yes, this is sort of important) and every day 3:30 comes around and I think sweet pogo’d m...

First, let me say how much I truly, madly, deeply lurve my dear Saint Aardvark the Carpeted. This morning I was doing something relatively uncomplicated on my computer, she is a sweet iBook who is 4 years old, I think, and the computer seized, as she does, and while I put a spoon under her tongue an...

And still, all I can think of to write is Anne Murray, Tom Cochrane and The Guy From Triumph Who Isn’t Either of the Cool Guys But Instead Looks Like A Mortgage Broker all have the same haircut. I know this because I tripped over the Juno awards last night and I watched 10 minutes of it. Surpr...

What you missed if you weren't at the Boston Skeptics meeting Thank you to all the people who turned out last night for the Boston Skeptics meeting. One person described as the first talk "that included LOLcats, slut DNA, a laundry list of nasty infections, and a solid anti-creationist message." I p...