Happy 4th birthday, Wonder Boy!
Month: June 2011
Crazy Vacation Utterances
Last week we vacationed at Gulf Shores for the week with Pepa. It was a long, fun week filled with pool trips, beach outings and LOTS of seafood. Over the course of the week, in my state of sheer exhaustion from chasing kids in the sun, I may have said a few crazy things like: […]
Would you like some whine with that?
We’ll be leaving for “vacation” shortly. If I’d said that aloud, I would have absolutely wiggled my fingers to indicate air quotes. That’s because I keep arguing with Bryan about this not being a real vacation for me. Don’t get me wrong. It should be fun. We’re going to his 20-year high school reunion (yeah, […]
Battle Royale vs. The Hunger Games
My friend Morgan (or “Morgan, Morgan, Morgan!” – like “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!” – as Bryan likes to say; apparently, I talk about her a lot) read an interview with Suzanne Collins, author of The Hunger Games’ Trilogy (of which we are both fans; see my review here), where she was asked whether she’d ever read […]
Giving up on rabbits?
Who knew keeping rabbits could be so hard? This weekend I was making jokes about finally getting to breed our two Dutch rabbits and today they both died. This sucks. The Girl’s first rabbit, Boots, which she got at the state fair last year, died suddenly and mysteriously just as we were about to get […]