Thaïs caught me putting away some er… unmentionables… the other day. OK… OK… they were sanitary napkins. “Whose are these?” she asked me.
“They’re mine,” I said.
She put out her hand. “Can I have one?”
Knowing full well that downright refusal would be a big mistake, I gave her one. She looked at it, turned it over [...]
Apologies to my RSS subscribers (I know I have just a handful, but still) who got the post entitled “Temporary Post Used For Style Detection” delivered to their readers. I had just installed Windows Live Writer and during the setup while WLW was trying to update the weblog style, I got a little popup [...]
A few days ago I had to go into town to get some work done, and I decided I’d be able to get more done if I left the little one at home with Mario. So I waited for her to fall asleep in the afternoon and I slipped out.
Unfortunately, it took me longer than [...]
I was clearing up Thaïs’ playroom yesterday and thought I’d ask her to help out. Now I do get her to clear up her mess occasionally, and she obeys, but on each of those occasions there had been just a few toys lying around so it wasn’t too daunting a task for her and she’d [...]
Thaïs has been playing around with ‘cray-horns’ for a few months now. She has several coloring books, but I guess the joy that comes from scribbling on clothes, walls, chairs, tables and the floor is too great to resist. As a result, her coloring books are almost as good as new – if you don’t [...]
At least, I’d like to think it was a ‘he’. I’m talking about a frog that had been in my bathroom since the day I got back from my two-week trip out of town.
The day I arrived I ran into the bathroom and would have run right back out, had it not been a poo [...]