Here are some photos of the monsters that attacked my baby. Sure, maybe it was self-defense. But still. Imagine a small child, armed only with a mop, trying to do battle with these:  One of the chunks missing here landed on his nose:   

Anyone remember "the Shuttered Room"? This terrifying 1960s horror movie in which the young bride finally figures out what is going on in the locked, shuttered room upstairs? I saw it, unfortunately, when I was just a girl and it scared me

Ironically soon after I posted yesterday's bokadoo entry, Isaac was attacked by a large one and for a

YEsterday when we were back home after Tae Kwon Do, Elias began yelling, "Bokadoo! Bokadoo!" From context clues, it seemed that he wanted an icicle, which are quite abundant lately. I plucked him a fine specimen and handed it to him. "

welcome 44!!I have spent the morning doing all my normal stuff, and then appending the words "on this historic day" to everything. I got my kids dressed and fed on this historic day. I cleaned snow off the car on this historic day. I took t

Ack! This cat continues her lifelong project of repaying love and kindness with being a real pain in the ass. She's back. And not just back any old day... she's back THE very day that I finally got myself confident enough that she was gone th

Have you been wracking your brains, trying to imagine what minor insult or slight in the past year cause me to summarily kick you off my Christmas card list? Well, let me reassure you. I did NOT send out a Christmas card this year, or you surely woul