• Dogs!

    Took the dogs to work for the first time with the Xtracycle – fun! Room for them in the trailer, and room for my stuff on my bike.

  • What’s this hat?

    I saw someone wearing a great hat a month or two ago, but she was way on the other side of a chain link fence so I couldn’t ask her where she got it. Now I’m turning to you guys! Does this hat look familiar? It was made of canvas and kind of floppy. Soft-looking…

  • I heard the snoring and thought it was the dog

  • I heart T Ball

    It is the cutest of all the sports my kids have played.

  • This is how you do it

    I get a frillion emails every day asking me to post about this or that on my blog. And you know what? For over a year I’ve been filtering them all into the trash and don’t even bother to read them anymore. This is how you do it. I’m about to post a Toyota ad…

  • Please god let it be Robert Downey Jr inside

    It took getting thrown out of the theater to find out…

  • I can’t believe I found it!

    The other day for some reason I remembered the beat-up apartment I lived in when I lived in LA. At first I couldn’t even remember the city, but after googling ‘towns near Venice, CA’ I remembered it was Mar Vista. (And then I felt really old.) Then I remembered it was right near the Mar…

  • No Sex, No Drugs, No Wine, No Women, No Fun, No Sin, No You, No wonder it’s dark

    Kirsten Dunst in a great remake of a fun Vapors song from the 80s. (A few seconds of moderately NSFW cartoons.) Update: bummer, the video has been deleted. Now you have to enjoy this live version by the Vapors instead. Via boing boing.

  • I’ll leave it to you

    What do you think – did Ed enjoy his first ice skating lesson? Thanks mom for the lessons and for taking such a great picture!

  • Olympics to-the-death!

    Two years ago we were watching the Summer Olympics and Fencing came on. Henry and Ed (then about 5) were really excited until they learned that it wasn’t a fight to the death kind of competition. Oh, how we laughed. So you’d think I wouldn’t have been surprised last night when Biathalon came on. You…

  • Thank you Palo Alto Utilities!

    This morning just before 8 there was a tragic plane crash in the city next to ours. As it went down, the plane took out some power lines which fed a huge area and 28,000 of us were suddenly without electricity. Palo Alto Utilities worked all day to get power restored and right before 6…

  • I guess I should have been more clear

    I printed out some papers for Charlie (5) to color on and give out to his friends for Valentine’s Day. I left the room when he first got started, and when I returned I couldn’t stop laughing. Not exactly in the spirit of Valentine’s Day, but at least they’re smiling.

  • I am middle aged, apparently.

    Interesting.

  • See, this is why I needed a brother…

    The other day I heard Henry in the other room giving Charlie a lesson in how to fart silently so his classmates wouldn’t hear. I almost ruptured my spleen trying not to laugh, but frankly it is good, practical advice which will serve him well next year in Kindergarten. Possibly I should warn his teacher…

  • Awww.

    Charlie (4.5) and I were alone tonight way past bedtime waiting for Craig to bring big brothers Ed and Henry home from a movie party. I asked Charlie if he missed his brothers, and he said “Yeah.” Me: “I don’t have any brothers. What’s it like?” Charlie: [Pause.] “It’s like… being really happy.” Me: “What…

  • AYSO is hard core

    This year Craig signed up to coach Ed’s soccer team. Previously he’s been assistant coach, but this year they were short on volunteers. So part of his “training” is doing an online course in safety and procedures and such. And generally the training is reasonable and helpful and pretty much what you’d expect. Except when…

  • Dear Mom: please don't murder me

    I’m a big believer in letting kids look like what they want to look like. I only pick out their outfits when we’re going someplace fancy, and they get to choose what haircut they want. So when my older two boys wanted REALLY short hair, of course the 4 year old had to have it…

  • Awesome day

    My day began running my 4 year old to the bathroom so he could throw up in the tub. Repeat throughout the day. I was just changing into my PJs and heard the 17 year old cat starting to vomit — I made him do it in his water bowl so I wouldn’t have to…

  • My fortune

    Sometimes I just like to shut my eyes and fall into the middle of the pile of my boys and get my fill of their love and joy.

  • My memory has just been sold

    Lately I’ve been reading a great book series which I’d like to post about, but I just can’t stomach having to add the ‘this is NOT a sponsored post’ or ‘I bought these with my own money’ disclaimers. It’s discouraging and off-putting.

  • DVD "extras"? Give me a break.

    I’ve never ever ever watched a DVD ‘deleted scene’ which was wrongly cut out of the move — why do they include this crap??