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.
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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…
November dwindles
We’ve almost reached the end of November, but already it rather feels like December. Strange how that works. I must be simply rolling from Craft Fair and production time right into Christmas without the usual panic to meet additional deadlines that falls temporally between the two. So Katherine and I went Christmas shopping today. We…
One definition of “high”:
A two year-old in a toy store a month before Christmas. Mom and I took Katherine to Toys R Us today, so that I could gawk at toys and we could both watch the munchkin spin from one display to another, pushing random buttons and eliciting bizarre noises from large, expensive pieces of brightly-coloured plastic….
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 