Last time I posted I told you about all the great LeapFrog products my daughters and I received for testing, and now it’s time to tell you how the testing party went over.
In a word: FABULOUS! Read the rest of this entry »
Ahhhh!
So, so much has been going on in my life lately that I can’t possibly fill you in on it all. Why? Because that damn IRL stuff has been sadly overwhelming my online life. (“Stupid IRL”, she says in her best Homer Simpson voice)
For shorts, you can read this. It’ll give you an idea of the really, really big life and death (for real) issues that I’m talking about.
Then, just for the hell of it, read this, too. Just ’cause I think it was kinda funny and thought-provoking. (If I do say so myself. And I do!)
And now, for some funny in a sad, maybe-I-should-actually-be-mad way stuff:
So. I am living with my sister and her family in Toronto. Why? Read the first link above, doofus. My Mom is in the last stages of her fight against cancer and I’m here to help, okay? And after nearly four weeks here alone, my daughters came out to join me. So all three of us are living with my sister and her family. Which means there are four cousins, all under the age of ten, living together in one (rather smallish, but beautiful nonetheless) house. And because three of them are girls, and they’re young, and stupid unsupervised; they decided yesterday to give themselves (and the neighbour kid, thankyouverymuch) homemade “marker tattoos”.
Yes, marker tatoos. Read the rest of this entry »
Just so you know. Never, never, ever buy your child a “Grow Your Own Triops Kit”. They’re available from Scholastic, only in the catalogue, they call it “prehistoric creatures”. That’s so you can’t go online and google “triops” before you buy the kit.
Because when you get the kit? And you hatch the eggs?
I know! Can we say 'disgusting', children?
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