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…

This cute little creature is what my husband surprised me with for my birthday and Christmas put together present. I’m pretty excited. I named it Claire and spent the better part of Sunday at my computer importing music. What’s on my ipod, you wonder? A little Gerald Finzi for clarinet…

Dr. Pediatrician took this picture last night while I was sleeping, obviously. The Banana is fussy in the evenings, which is the time of day that I really expect to be able to get things done after Mr. Destructoman and Ms. Crazy Preschooler are tucked into their cozy beds. The…

Ms. CP: “Look at me squeeze through this crack in the door Mom. I can do that because I’m thin. . . ” (She Looks at me in the mirror while I comb her hair) “But you’re more thick, Mom.” Ms. CP: (After telling me a big long, long story…