Archive for September, 2009

invasion

HELP! Aliens have broken in to our home and stolen all of the adult brains from the premises. At least, that is the only rational explanation I can come up with for what transpired over the weekend. *** Marc and I returned to Austin last week and decided simultaneously that our living room (which for [...]

not an unreasonable demand, i don’t think

“Marc, please stop staring at him crying! Go… make him HAPPY!” (Me to Marc after a long day without our Elizabeth. She came down with the flu late last night and left me and the kid to fend for ourselves all day, while Marc worked on the three-thousand items on his to-do list.) H and [...]

back at it

It was H’s first day back at “school” (Finn’s house with the nanny) after our extended home-away-from-home-trip. He was apprehensive and sensitive and sweet compared to Finn’s confident toughness. Things were different just a year ago when Elizabeth started and Finn (Mr. Perfect) was a cute and cuddly little muffin and H was an act-before-thinking, [...]