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 »

Guess who was a parent volunteer on the Kindergarten field trip today?

So I go with Girl2 and her class to this place called SpacePort at the Calgary International Airport. And they do a little interactive stageshow called Living in Space. Of course the best part for the kids is how to pee and poo in space. So the teacher is explaining why it’s important to have these vacuum hoses in the toilet (my new fave phrase: “urine adapter funnel”), she says, “Imagine what would happen in microgravity, if all your number two didn’t make it into the toilet…”

And that’s when it happened, one little boy yelled out in this crystal-clear piping voice, 

Wow, I never heard of flying poo before!

Like I said, quote of the day.