Day 3079

I wonder how long it will take for people to get their conversational skills back...

Day 3078

 When life gives you lemons, try Robit.

And also a big dose of your kid’s beautiful kind heart.

Day 3077

 When your six year old falls asleep in your arms, and it’s not even nightmare o’clock...

Day 3076

 Well, at least I didn’t break my butt.

Day 3075

 Banana seems to have decided that if you’re sitting anywhere other than at the dinner table, you’re supposed to be reading books to her.

Day 3074

 This is the first kid to realize that if she gets the next set of books while you’re in the middle of reading a book to her, it’s much harder for you to sneak away to do something else.

Day 3073

 The end of vacation was as sudden as the beginning. I wonder if my concept of time will make more sense post-pandemic...

Day 3072

 When you have some whipping cream to use up... why not make strawberry shortcake for the first time ever on a whim?

Day 3071

 When you realize your six year old currently gets through chapter books faster than your retired mum...

Day 3070

 It is looking suspiciously like we have another book fiend on our hands. 

Day 3069

 I didn’t forget that I booked vacation days, I’m just surprised that it’s already here.

Day 3068

 The only thing that can console a Banana whose teeth hurt and whose boots you have removed is... linty toes?

How does one stock linty toes?

Day 3067

That feeling when your six year old has opinions about the previous American president...

Day 3066

 When she isn’t bowling people over, Lizard takes her big sister role very seriously and sweetly. But then she gets caught up in being six and forgets that she is big compared to some people.

Day 3065

 How do you say no when someone who is two and a half feet tall asks you to dance?

/drags you to the dance floor and refuses to let go

Day 3064

 Turns out you don’t have to twist my arm too hard to get me to play board games all weekend.

Day 3063

 Spider-Man and Black Widow aren’t always shooting bad guys with their powers; sometimes they have to go to the dentist.

Day 3062

 When your six year old pretends she doesn’t know what chicken is, you are (probably) justified in inventing throwing broccoli. Doing it in front of the three year old was probably not the best idea in the world.

Day 3061

 There’s no such thing as a quiet activity when Chinchilla is involved.

Day 3060

 Another day, another deep end.

Day 3059

 Chinchilla is already making plans for new parents when we “go to another building”.

Day 3058

 If you rampage hard enough, your house will get so clean it stays like that forever.

Day 3057

 PEW! PEW PEW!! PEW PEW PEW PEW!!!!

Day 3056

 May Banana’s love of stroganoff never die.

May Lizard’s problem with spaghetti disappear forever.

May Chinchilla actually eat when he’s hungry.

Amen. 

Day 3055

Benefit of Covid life: nobody bats an eye when your kid wanders onscreen during a call... they just smile and wave.

Day 3054

Last night we had a house of nightmares; Chinchilla came up with a game plan to defeat his bad dreams (get the police to catch the bad guys and ask his parents to fix the stuff they broke) and I slept in Lizard’s bed with her until she decided I could go. Problem solved!

Day 3053

 Lizard was practicing kindness today, and read her brother his bedtime story and tried to tuck him in. He refused to cooperate because he wanted to stay wrapped in a blanket. She starts heading out the door, looks at me, shrugs, and exclaims “three year olds!”

Quite.

Day 3052

 Only use ingredients your children like in approved ways they have eaten before OR YOU SHALL SUFFER.

Mostly from all the frustration.