Katie woke me up early Sunday morning by whispering this in my ear:
We took Katie to the Nutcracker Ballet on Saturday December 5. Last year we read the book and watched the San Francisco Ballet's production on PBS. Katie was completely enthralled, so we knew it was going on the agenda for this winter.After Jorge had breakfast in his pajamas I asked him if he was ready to go upstairs and he yelped "no!" in a somewhat playful way--not his full-on belligerent refusal. I would prefer if he would say something like "Can we wait until after X, Y, Z" or "Can we" [...]
I missed Saturday. Twenty-seven solid days and I missed this one. Classic case of too many (all of the) watermelon margaritas and a good movie on the couch with the hubby and not a second thought about the computer.
between watching a movie or sewing a new project, grading the umpteenth essay just never even makes the ballot.
First up was completing the purple and pink scarf which Katie and I have been crocheting since late summer. She had picked out the two-toned skein of yarn and a pink crochet hook (never mind things like sizes...we shop by color) for her birthday and we double-crocheted [...] 
Day two of NaBloPoMo and I'm already out of topics. Which makes this my official "freebie-topic-about-lack-of-topics" post for the month. It's going to be a long month. [...] 
I will be typing in my password and will accidentally be on the wrong window and will post it as my facebook status or a blog post or something. 
If you were lucky enough to have these two chuckle heads at your doorstep tonight you were likely greeted by a little green frog sweetly announcing: "Hi. I would like some candy now please."
Saturday nights are totally unpredictable around here.
At dinner tonight 
Mother goose looked for a moose
This morning we sat on the couch--Katie, Jorge, and me--in a post-pancake haze sharing zerberts and giggles. Suddenly Katie turned to Jorge and announced she had a question for him.Thanks PJ for reminding me of this clip. I had traumatic flashbacks to last night while watching it.
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Incidentally, after I posted and went upstairs to see what on earth was important enough to warrant an hour of chirping out "mama" I arrived to find Jorgie sitting calmly in his crib.
Mama. [...]
...scream BAAAA!!!!!Katie had her play tonight at VBS and was part of the Rowdy Flock O' Sheep for the nativity story, a nice reminder that we can celebrate Jesus's birth all year round without the whole American Christmas hoopla. No attempts at the tree [...]
It started here. Katie's bike has a little pouch on the front which also holds a water bottle.
Jorge's bike didn't even have a bar where we could screw on a standard water' [...]
In 30 hours we.... 
I'm not sure which version they found acceptable, but the application for Jorge's new proof of citizinship documents (his COC with his updated name) is under review; they cashed our check and sent us a notice that they'd get back to us eventually. [...] 
Uncle Russell is visiting this weekend, finally finishing the process of introducing Jorge to all of his immediate aunts and uncles. Jorge wasn't so sure about him at first, but it didn't take long to decide it was all good. 
Remember this dress?
And Katie this morning.
I have a hard time looking at these, because in my eye she somehow manages to [...]
Sunday we tossed both kids and half the house in the car and drove to Toronto. I was presenting at a conference on Monday and wanted to see a few talks Tuesday and Wednesday. Since parenting solo at home is not really much different than parenting solo at [...]
Oh, Miss May, what can I say?
I posted my current quilt project over on my other (terribly neglected; I need to quilt more!) blog. [...] 
Katie and I explored the world of stop-action animation today. 
You may have noticed the photo in the top left part of the last post.
