Driving home, we pass the paper shop with balloons tied outside on a sandwich board. (Yes, the same place that used to give away balloons, up until that helium shortage last year.)
“I want a balloon! Can I have a balloon today?”
We keep driving.
“Mommy!”
We keep driving.
“What?”
“Can I have a balloon? PLEASE?!”
“No, not today.” [...]
America is so dumb.
Amanda? Gone? While SHE is still there? In the TOP 10?
America is so dumb. I hate America. It’s not my friend anymore.
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noun:
A showy trifle; a trinket; a bauble.
The origin of gewgaw is uncertain.
Here’s yet another useless word. Except that it describes what all the female 4 year old’s I know (and 3 and 2…) love and are instantly attracted to.
ANYTHING WITH GLITTER.
They are like little crows hopping all around any sparkly item, and [...]
Here’s my entry for Make Me Laugh Monday hosted by Absolutely Bananas. It’s a dog. It’s lots of snow. We can laugh, because it is definitely turning springy around here with warmer days, birds returning and extra sneezing (by people, not the birds).
I hope this all works. I’m such a dork; [...]
I’ve seen them here before and looked them up. Band-tailed pigeon, the book said. Always show up in twos. Isn’t that sweet?
For birders out there, help me out here–are pigeons and doves the same?
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“A person’s a person, no matter how small!”
Yes, it opened yesterday (big) and being the movie loser lover I am, I took Kid to Horton Hears a Who.
Sure, it was colorful, silly and most importantly, less than 90 minutes long, but there was this message.
And they kept repeating it.
And while laughing nervously, I [...]
Since Kid had yet another half-birthday party at school recently (But THIS TIME I knew about it ahead of time! Ha ha! Preschool, you can’t get me TWO years in a row! Last year, you saw me run out panicked after drop-off in search of any remotely fresh bakery cookies; this year, Kid [...]
