Nick had a three day weekend to enjoy. Not Monday - Nick was back in school. But Friday was the Parish Fair Holiday. I've no idea why this is a school holiday, but it is, and he wasn't complaining. At least not till he found out what the sche

I was going to write a long entry about the problems I had driving around town today. But then I realized that would be very boring. Also, whiny. So I will spare you all, and just say this: when I become filthy rich, I'm hiring a chauffeur. In th

The local Catholic parish's annual fair was this weekend. We were going to go yesterday, but Nick was being a little brat so we canceled. Oh, the tears! From him, not me. I was unmoved. He had fair warning. But we all like the fair, so I told him

Our attempts to broaden our children's horizons continue apace. This weekend: a pow wow, also a Lebanese restaurant. Success: mixed. Zoe had fun at the pow wow, but she has fun playing with her toes, know what I'm saying? The bar isn't se

Our story starts after school yesterday. Nick spots a box on the kitchen island. -What's that, Mommy?-It's a box of brownie mix.-I hate brownies! Don't bake that!-You don't have to eat them.-Don't bake them! Don't bake them! D

I found Nick rather trying today. He was argumentative and unreasonable. He obviously thought I was the one with a problem, though, which is why he decided my name needed to go on the no treat list. Seriously; he got out a pencil and a piece of paper

The kids and I were on our way home from the library when I started noticing people parking by the side of the road and standing around by their cars. My Mommy Senses started tingling and we pulled over ourselves. Sure enough, there was a parade comi

I had two cavities filled today. Two of Rich's dress shirts were ruined in the wash when I failed to notice a pen in a pocket. Nick broke his volcano by sticking stuff inside it. I wasted almost an hour at the drug store trying to get one of my

Wait until I am playing with you, lifting you in the air to swirl around, then spit up half your stomach down your front - and right into my open, smiling mouth.Complain when I run to the bathroom to rinse and spit repeatedly. Do this immediatel

I was in the kitchen when Nick quietly emerged from his room, holding his scissors. He put them away as discretely as he could; when he realized I was looking at him, he said innocently, "Just cutting something in my room, Mommy." Uh huh. A

Zoë has a bit of colic. Every evening she screams a lot, for some random period of time ranging as long as mid-afternoon to midnight. Never over that entire period, though, which is why I say "mild" colic. Tonight she cried for about t

Nick wanted to say something while Rich was talking to me, so he raised his hand. We found that extremely amusing.Zoe's cord has fallen off. She has an outie.Nick is pretty horrified by spit-up, and can't believe I just wipe it off my shirt a

Nick has always been a hearty eater. Also, willing to eat a wide variety of foods. I've tried not to be too smug about this, because I understand that this is not the result of my own masterful parenting and in fact, is something I have no real c

Today's entry is disgusting. No, really. I just want to warn you before you start reading it.  I thought Nick was healthy again. I thought it was a one-day illness. Ha ha ha. My day started at about one AM, when I heard Nick crying in his ro

Nick seems to be fully recovered. He certainly had plenty of energy for bossing me around, or trying to. This is an annoying phase, albeit fairly easy to manage. I just don't do what he tells me to do. He lacks any ability to enforce his wishes,

Look what my son did this morning.   So what? you say. Those things cost like twenty dollars. Well, they do, unless it's an odd sized window that requires a custom blind.  

Yesterday I sliced up my right index finger, rather badly. Well, in the grand scheme of things it's not all that bad, I suppose - I didn't feel the need to visit the emergency room, for example - but it hurt like the dickens all afternoon, and every

A week ago Tuesday, I screwed up by taking Nick to campus for a tree lighting that wasn't happening yet. Yesterday, I got it right. Nick didn't make it through the entire ceremony to the actual tree lighting, but that portion of our evening was never

I let Nick play with my PDA for a few minutes while I finished up a phone call. Big mistake. He broke it! I have no idea what, exactly, he did, but the darn thing locked up completely. I couldn't even turn it off. Eventually I gave up and left it alo

I'm tired and need to go to bed, so just a short comment. Nick's good moments are as good as ever, but his bad moments, of late, have been much worse. Examples: today he decided it would be funny to pull all my clothes, and their hangers, to the floo

So, Halloween Day. It was appropriately frightful. My morning started with Rich waking me up out of a sound sleep. His car had stalled out pulling into the gas station. He got it started again, but could I please take it in to be checked out, and he'

Last night, Zeus took a plastic container off the counter and chewed the heck out of it, trying to get at the candy wrappers inside. This morning, while we were at the library, he knocked over Nick's pumpkin, scattered the candy across the floor, and

When I'm dropping Nick off at daycare, if I don't have pockets I usually just carry my keys in my hand, temporarily setting them down on a shelf while I'm settling him in his room. This is why Nick was able to pick them up, point the keychain lo