This morning Ms. Crazy Preschooler yells in a most distraught voice from the attic: “Come and Get Noah! He’s going to SWALLOW Baby Jesus!” (She had been playing with her little nativity set and was quite concerned that Baby Jesus might be her brother’s midmorning snack.)

These are the start of icicles out my living room picture window. It has been raining all day and the minute the rain hits the ground it freezes. It’s very slippery out, obviously. I hate, hate HATE these awnings on my house. While they do keep things very cool in…

I plopped The Banana on the floor yesterday and she was joined by the rambunctious ranks of the household, who don’t exactly like their own picture taken but cant’ STAND for me to take pictures of The Banana without them. These aren’t technically good pictures at all, but I really…

Every Christmas my mom sews a Christmas dress for Ms. Crazy Preschooler. This year at Ms. CP’s request she made a matching purple dress for The Banana. Both dresses are so gorgeous. The girls wore them last Sunday and Ms. CP can’t wait to wear hers again next Sunday. Hopefully…

On Saturday I got a letter in the mail from the nurses at the department of pediatrics. Inside was a xeroxed copy of an advertisement for a toddler Teletubby costume. The nurses that Dr. P. works with (I think it was probably the nurses, anyway) cloned in his head in…

I survived bringing Destructoman and The Banana to Sarah’s Preschool program by myself today. It actually went very well, although I didn’t get to take many pictures because The Banana was in the sling and kept bopping her head on the camera, and every third minute I was chasing down…

Today I experimented with baking these little loaves of honey oatmeal bread. On Friday Sarah is going to give her two preschool teachers a little bucket with some strawberry freezer jam and a couple of little loaves of diffrent kinds of bread for a Christmas gift. All day long Mr.…

Ms. Crazy Preschooler to Elizabeth the babysitter: “I love you more than pennies.”

If you haven’t ever played with goop (cornstarch and water) before, you need to. Every once in awhile I purchase a 64 cent box of generic cornstarch at Walmart whip up a batch of goop, that lovely material that’s neither a liquid or a solid. My kids love it, and…

I’m about to start draft three of our family Christmas letter. The first one I trashed because it just wasn’t working. The second one I finished and just was about to print it out, but I wasn’t feeling good about it and had my husband read it. His comment summed…