Don’t Fence Him In
Four-Year-Old Will (singing along with me at bedtime):
I want to ride to the ridge where the West commences,
Gaze at the moon until I lose my menses…
5 comments May 30th, 2007
Archive for May, 2007
The Vomit Chronicles: Episode 136
Conversation in the car on the way home from school:
Macky: Mama, Jackson threw up at school today!
Will: Yeah! In the DIRT!
Macky: It was disgusting!
Eugenia (looking out the window to see where we’re headed): Mama, do I have piano lessons today?
Me: No.
Eug: Why not?
Me: Because we have so much to get done today. And because I’m tired. I don’t really feel all that well.
Macky: I hope ya don’t throw up!
Me: I hope so, too. I suppose it’s possible, though, if I’ve got whatever Jackson had.
Eugenia: What did Jackson have?
Will: Corn.
2 comments May 22nd, 2007
Pity the Fool Who Forgets Mother’s Day
Do what the man says (once you stop cringing).
Thanks, Mr. T.
1 comment May 5th, 2007
Did You Hear the One about the Mom Who Lost Her Mind?
Overheard in the car on the way home from school:
Will: Macky, knock-knock!
Macky: Who’s there?
Will: …
Macky (testily): Who’s there?
Will: Um… Why did the chicken cross the road?
Macky: Who’s there? (cracks himself up)
Will (also cracking up): Why did the chicken cross the road?
Macky: WHO’S THERE?!?!
Will: WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?!?!???
Macky: WHO’S THERE?!?!
Will: WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?!?!???!!!!!!!!!
Macky: WHOOOOOO’S THERE?! Hahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!
Five minutes later, following several minutes of purposeful belching, screaming, and arguing on the kids’ part:
Me: You guys, I’m serious! KNOCK it off!
(Pause.)
Will: Who’s there?
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Later that night:
Me: Macky, put that grate back in the floor. Stop touching that. No. No! NO!!!! No, no, no, no, stop, nooooooooo! What part of “No” don’t you understand?
(Pause.)
Macky: “No”?
1 comment May 3rd, 2007
Never Trust a Man Named "Frosty" on the Subject of Global Warming
This is my favorite Daily Show segment EVER. And that is saying A LOT.
1 comment May 2nd, 2007
New Zen: Of Loss and Love
In my new column: a response to the tragedy at Virginia Tech.
Zen and the Art of Child Maintenance To say that the tragedy at Virginia Tech is a parent’s worst nightmare is the grossest of understatements. Losing a child is our biggest fear, our unspeakable dread. . . But it isn’t practical, even for near-paranoid parents like me, to live perpetually at Code Orange. We simply can’t keep our children safe by the sheer force of our will. By Shari MacDonald Strong
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