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An Outside Child
As I mentioned in my previous post, my youngest has strep throat right now. In an effort to avoid germs, my oldest has been avoiding the youngest as much as possible. In a surprising gesture of kindness last night, the youngest volunteered to eat dinner alone on the patio and spare his brother the germ…
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Bob
My youngest has strep throat for the fourth time this year. Due to various poor decisions on my part, he only just got his first dose of antibiotics an hour ago even though he was diagnosed with strep yesterday. He’s been miserable off and on, but mostly he’s been curled up in the basement diligently…
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Warm Milk
One thing you should know about me is that I don’t use warm milk to make anything. Instant oatmeal? Hot water. Hot cocoa? Hot water. It’s water, it’s always water, it will never be milk. Who has time to warm milk when water is so damn cheap and easy? I bought this color-changing hot cocoa…
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Casey’s Daycare for Exceptional Bunnies
We had pet rabbits when I was a kid. They lived in a backyard hutch, and they really weren’t good pets, but I, at seven years old, knew exactly what would improve our situation: baby bunnies. So I did what any intelligent child raised in a religious household would do and I started praying for…
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Casey Reads Wikipedia, vol. 1
I was on Wikipedia the other night–as I often am–and ended up at this article about Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, an astrophysicist who was active in the first half of the twentieth century. Did you know that Cambridge University did not award degrees to women until 1948? In fact, Cecilia went to Cambridge on scholarship, completed her…
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School Picture Day
School picture day was this week, which means in about a month we’ll receive an overpriced packet of photos and I’ll take down the old photos hanging in the kitchen and put up the new ones. I don’t want to take down last year’s school pictures in which my oldest has a cowlick, and an…
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Am I… not short?
At just under five feet six inches tall, I am taller than the average woman in the United States. But I am short. I am short because I live with a tall person. And let me tell you something about tall people: they love to place things up high. If the choice is between putting…
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Childproofing
One of the things that has surprised me about life with older kids is how quickly and easily our house stopped being childproof. I used to have this place totally locked down. Both kids were very curious and active. They climbed everything, opened everything, destroyed everything. It wasn’t that I loved the look of baby…
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Documentary Review/ McMillion$
A six-episode deep dive into human greed. This documentary series follows the FBI’s investigation into the McDonald’s Monopoly fraud. The fraud took place starting way back in the 1990s (when I remember collecting Monopoly pieces!), but the investigation didn’t get started until the very early 2000s, when a young, hungry agent named Doug Mathews decided…
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Tales from School, vol. 1
My youngest told a kid in his class that he sounded like a drunk boomer.