Three down, two to go.
Monday, January 31, 2022
Sunday, January 30, 2022
Saturday, January 29, 2022
Thursday, January 27, 2022
Day 3411
Banana swapped out my chair for hers while we were distracted and has been crowing at every meal that she’s sitting in my chair.
Once again, this baby makes her own choices about when it’s time to grow up.
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
Day 3410
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Day 3409
To cure bickering, try videos on how instruments are made or scishow. Be prepared to hear demands to watch scishow forever after.
But at least the bickering stopped.
Monday, January 24, 2022
Day 3408
It’s beginning to feel like the endless isolation and the endless snow will conspire to keep us here until the windows and doors are covered. We just have to keep shovelling and shovelling, stacking snowbanks on snowbanks.
Sunday, January 23, 2022
Saturday, January 22, 2022
Day 3406
Lie on the floor. Moan a little. Wonder how long we have to wait until the kids can make dinner. Give up and order pizza.
Friday, January 21, 2022
Day 3405
If your goal is to go to bed once the kids are asleep, guaranteed they will decide to stay up late.
Thursday, January 20, 2022
Day 3404
The universe really needs to get over absurdist theatre.
Nobody likes it as much as you think they do.
Wednesday, January 19, 2022
Day 3403
You’re probably raising your kids right when the eldest starts coming up with ideas to trick her siblings into eating. Yup, it’s definitely pirate stew (for me and you).
Tuesday, January 18, 2022
Day 3402
Poor little Banana, who couldn’t sleep because she hadn’t had her fruit at lunch and because she had concerns about people being mean in the book we read hours earlier.
Monday, January 17, 2022
Day 3401
Every once in a while I am struck by how much of our wordiness the kids pick up. Like when the four year old says to the two year old “this is not a conversation we need to have right now!”
(He was right; it was time for sleeping)
Sunday, January 16, 2022
Friday, January 14, 2022
Thursday, January 13, 2022
Day 3397
It will probably never cease to amuse me that our kids usually interpret ‘where did you hurt yourself?’ to be a question about where they were when it happened. Unless of course they just ran in yelling that they hurt their arm, in which case ‘where’ always refers to the body part already mentioned.
Where did you hurt yourself?
In the living room.
Where on your body are you hurt?
The floor.
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
Day 3396
You know you’re reading a good book when it makes you exclaim loudly even though you’re on quiet mode because the children are sleeping…
Tuesday, January 11, 2022
Day 3395
Who needs initiative when your productivity is driven entirely by compulsions and a good ol’ G&S sense of duty.
Monday, January 10, 2022
Day 3394
Remote learning starts and the support network of parents with young students lights up again
Sunday, January 9, 2022
Day 3393
If life insists on continuing to give you lemons, spend it with someone who decides to learn to make cocktails.
Saturday, January 8, 2022
Day 3392
You take the big kids on a walk and they want to see little free libraries. You take Banana on a walk and she’s like “TREES! NOTHER TREE!! MORE TREEES!!”
And then sometimes she demands to be carried because snow is too slippery. And then she demands to walk.
Thursday, January 6, 2022
Wednesday, January 5, 2022
Day 3389
Banana truly has a gift for grumpy rhetoric. “I throw your kiss in the garbage!” is an absolute classic.
Tuesday, January 4, 2022
Monday, January 3, 2022
Day 3387
Our Banana is very intent on being big; asking to sit at the kid end of the table and for a kid cup. And then you ask her if she’s big, and she says yes but then thinks of her sister and says “actually, I’m little.”