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Contest: Do you know about these?

Contest: Do you know about these?

We have a new favorite toy in our house. Every child in my house (including me) loves these new fangled connecting things!

They are colorful. They are flexible. They are shaped like a hexagon. They can be connected to make 2D toys.
Like aliens

or turned into crowns and connected in the back

They can be [...]

When it all goes well

I learned that if I talk about laundry and all it’s horribleness I get a fair amount of comments. What gives?
Update: my sweet son (remember him? the one who almost had his mouth smacked off his face) got up that very night sometime around 3:00am-ish to use the bathroom and could not go back [...]

Uh, I don’t know.

What is in the water? Or the air around here. Today has been a bit crazy and busy. Usual stuff: errands, change a diaper, phone calls, change a diaper, work on some files, change a diaper, nurse to soothe Bairno’s tummy, more spreadsheets and financial management for impending decisions, change a diaper, run some errands, need to change a diaper (waits until we get home), eat lunch, drink a Dr. Pepper, change a diaper, hear an tummy churning, wait for explosion, change another diaper, and the list goes on, realize that was the last clean cloth diaper, run to Waldemort to buy throwaways for ease of use while the washer and dryer do their duty, run to carpool line, hear another tummy churn, speed home, put Bairno down to change him, watch him drift quickly off to sleep.

Are you exhausted yet?