We watched part of The Sound of Music tonight. In the song Sixteen Going on Seventeen, the girl sings:
I need someone older and wiser
telling me what to do.
You are seventeen going on eighteen —
I’ll depend on you.
My daughter was sitting in my lap and I told her that she doesn’t need to depend on [...]
I love being Santa Claus.
A storm grounded flights out of Ohio and the surrounding area today, which means that my packages spent all day in Ohio instead of being delivered. The DHL customer service person said that they will try and deliver them on Christmas Eve — but no guarantees. I pulled up a satellite photo of [...]
So the kids have been vomitting on me again. The Boy took me by surprise the first time. Without warning, he vomitted down my back after he asked me to pick him up. I wasn’t wearing a shirt so it made its way down my back to my pants. [...]
So my son and daughter were ordering lunch and my daughter decided on the Grilled Cheese Sandwich (a perennial favorite second only to the unsurpassed Peanut Butter and Jelly [said with a booming echo if you can manage it]). Somehow she and The Boy got into a discussion about the merits of the Grilled [...]
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