Seven Angels, Four Kids, One Family
Sometimes sarcasm is the only sane response
My long-form bike ride takes me through three towns in 8 miles because, well, it’s the Swamp. You get to enjoy views like this: And then sometimes you come across a bridge, like this one: Lovely bridge, right? It’s the…
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I have no exciting updates on my yarn package. It arrived in a timely fashion with the two items I’d ordered, and a receipt saying I’d paid for both. Apparently they have some kind of inventory situation where each item…
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Step One: Order beautiful yarn from an online seller. Use generous gift card from Sister-in-law. Step Two: Because beautiful yarn plus shipping totals to twenty-six cents less than the gift card amount, select a cheap item to add to the…
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My Patient Husband and I were compiling all the rules we’ve picked up from music. Don’t pay the ferryman. Don’t talk to strangers. Don’t answer me (I guess that’s if you break Rule 2 and talk to strangers.) Don’t let…
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Where have I been? I’ll get you up to date. 1) I’m going to call PerNoWriLent an unreserved success. Although there were several times I wanted to take a day off (which would have turned into several days, which would…
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After my previous post, Lee Jeans tweeted me and asked me to send them an email. Over the weekend, I sent an email explaining what I’d said here, plus including photos of the various ways their jeans had disintegrated after…
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Dear Lee Jeans: I discovered “Relaxed Riders” back in graduate school. Up until that point, shopping for jeans was a nightmare of multiple sizes and styles, me heading into the changing room with armloads of jeans while I tried to…
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I’m thrilled to spread the word that Dunkin Donuts is helping Christians to have a good Lent. In the wake of Advent’s “Locust and Wild Honey” flavored muffin, one of their Lenten offerings is the Penitential Donut. This offering is…
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Over the weekend, my Patient Husband suggested we might watch Fugitive Alien and have a “Black and Tan.” Now if you’re wondering what either of those are, Fugitive Alien is a Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode, described by the Mad…
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This comes up often enough that I have to blog about it: how do you get an object out of a child’s nose? The reason this keeps coming up is no one seems to know what to do when it…
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