Today I had to take the Craigerator to the urgent care, as he has been wheezing something fierce. He’s bee bopping around as usual, pink cheeked and perky, and also has a high squeaky Minnie Mouse voice and breathes like Darth Vader right now. When we got there, we had to wait for a bit…
Category: Liam
Lilypads
Hello strangers. I have worked the last two weekends and I’m working this one too (life is terrible), but Things Have Happened and I’ve missed sharing them in this space, so here comes a photo dump and brisk whisk through the last few weeks! When last I left you, we had just returned from a…
Kids are Exhausting and Cute
*Edited to add pictures* Last night we had Jack’s tenth birthday party. We had a Nerf war in the park, followed by a movie projected on a sheet in our backyard. Ten 10 year olds. The Nerf part went actually fine – we just sort of threw them into an area of Audubon park bounded…
Guitar Fixed! And Other News
I’m not sure if I shared here, but somehow the neck of my guitar was broken . . . by children, no doubt. It’s a cheap guitar and I don’t play anywhere but for myself, so I was distressed at the prospect of having to pay for a new one, but turns out it’s not…
A French Quarter Story
509 Saint Croix Street* – there we are. I stand in a lather of indecision on the damp, grotty cobbled street, while my six and eight year old boys fiddle and jangle their limbs and punch each other half-heartedly, in that way children have when they can’t sit still. Drunk people festooned with beads and gripping…