Monthly Archive: May 2009

Oh, Diego, Oh…

My children recently discovered Diego, the spinoff cartoon to Dora The Explorer. While Dora makes me want to bash my head into the closest brick wall, Diego is less painful. The music is better, the pacing is faster, and the…
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Update on baseball

Remember the fun we had with the Angelborough Baseball League, and how the guy from the “major” league was trying to shoehorn my son into a league where he didn’t fit? (The instant replay: we signed my son up for…
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A name and a dress

Kiddo#2 received her First Holy Communion, and I am obligated by the Maternal Convention of 2004 to post pictures on the weblog. You are similarly obligated to post comments about how cute she is. We bought the dress last May,…
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No longer a hairy-hairy

If you’re Kit Brookside, then you remember what a hairy-hairy is. If you’re not, a hairy-hairy is our own-word (like Spucket) for something that’s shaggy, bushy, unkempt or (yes) hairy. Kiddo#4 had not been shorn since birth. At 13 months,…
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More on motherhood

This is how my mother’s day started: At 5:53AM, Kiddo#2 woke me, in tears, saying she had a tick on her body. I trailed her to the bathroom and somehow, without actually being awake enough to think, I pulled the…
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