After looking at the baby monitor’s nether region….. “Actually, Katherine, the baby monitor was made in Thailand.” “Oh. (Long pause, in which the only sound is that of the cogs in her head whirring double-time.) Thailand is like China and is a long way away. They have elephants in Thailand?” Good question. What planet did…
Category: household humour
Blink
Pointing at the receiver of the baby monitor, “Mommy, who made this?” “I don’t know, Katherine. Probably someone a long ways away.” “In China?” Blink. Blink. “Uh, yeah. China….” This kid is too bloody smart.
Why otherwise intelligent people have kids
Most of childraising is just straight work. Honestly. The diapers are labour, as is the laundry (said with a harrowed, moaning, groan), the fact that everything you tidy has to be tidied three times over because as soon as you put it down, an invisible elastic toddler string snaps it to somewhere else in the…
While no one was watching….
Katherine and I spent some time out in the yard today, tidying things and spraying sand in about eight different directions. She had a blast. Moss discerned that hoses are really related to snakes and need pouncing upon, vigourous shaking and the deft application of very sharp teeth. At least, that’s his story. Mine varies…
Smoke alarms: what you don’t know might kill a night’s sleep
Woke up at 5:57 this morning to the alarm clock going off. While I knew John had to be up and out the door early, there were two things wrong with the situation that my pre-caffeinated brain could discern. Firstly, the alarm was set for 6:25, which, even without coffee, I can tell is different…
