quirky is just a nicer way to say “weird”

19Nov09

Thing the first: dates. I have a “thing” about dates. Important dates, anyway, like wedding dates and birth dates and… well, I guess those are the two biggies. The “date thing” really has no rhyme or reason, save to say that I tend to dislike odd numbers and, in my head, 7 and 9 seem [...]

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Tags: eccentric, ordinal linquistic personification, quirks, synethesia

not much

18Nov09

When people ask “What’s new? What’s been going on?” I almost always answer: “Not much.” There’s always something going on, surely, but I ramble enough about myself here that I can’t fathom that people would want to hear all about it in real life too. Anybody else do this?
:::
Madeline, Jimmy and I made our first [...]

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Tags: Christmas cookies, Elmo LIVE!, New Moon, parenting, Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

little things

17Nov09

More and more she’s been lying down on her belly to play, to color. It was Jimmy who noticed it first, one night when she laid down in the living room to read a book. “Look at the big girl,” he said, nudging me. “Maddie, you’re so big,” he told her. “What happened?”
“What happened, Dada?” [...]

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Tags: milestones, toddler

the reluctant ladybug

16Nov09

You know, I almost forgot all about Halloween!
I was excited about Halloween this year. Last year, for her first, we dressed her up in a ladybug sleeper and visited our families.

We thought we’d do the same this year, stopping at five or six houses to see our immediate family in the area. We thought that [...]

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Tags: Halloween, ladybug costume, parenting

It’s November.

11Nov09

(The title of this post should be read in the voice used for the It’s Lindsay lead-in on The Soup. You watch The Soup, right? If not, you should. Hilarity).
I posted on November 1, which… well, that was mostly an accident, really. You know what that means though, right? I’ve pretty much got myself [...]

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Tags: Christmas, Christmas traditions, family traditions, gift-giving, Holidays