Category Archives: kid stuff

Pigs and Robots are Smart

Posted on August 9, 2009 by The Daring One

Dinner. Tonight. Canned soup. Crackers. Cold cereal for desert. Best dinner conversation in possibly the last 2 years. Dan was at a meeting. I managed to find some canned soup that was less than 2 years past its Best-By Date. … Continue reading →

Posted in domesticality, family fun, food, kid stuff, scaring the neighbors | 8 Comments

Shopping With Boys

Posted on July 1, 2009 by The Daring One

I buy most of Dan’s clothes due to the fact that he hates shopping and I’m the only one whose opinion of how he looks he cares about. I buy Magoo’s clothes too because he’s flat broke, 4 years old … Continue reading →

Posted in fashion, kid stuff, parenting, shopping | 2 Comments

Too Much “Info”

Posted on June 25, 2009 by The Daring One

We do not have the cable. Our television has two wires on top of it in the form of an antenna. Sometimes it’s dressed in foil. We decided to try and live without cable for a few months when we … Continue reading →

Posted in kid stuff, television | 16 Comments

No-nonsense Favorite Colors

Posted on June 2, 2009 by The Daring One

Laylee’s a recovering perfectionist. She works at not needing everything to be perfect but feels a moral imperitive that some things must be. And although she’s very imaginative, she’s also quite a realist for a 6-year-old. Imaginary play is one … Continue reading →

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Sleep of the Spoiled

Posted on May 27, 2009 by The Daring One

The kids didn’t die on the Titanic but you couldn’t tell that to look at them on Sunday during church. Both of them fell asleep during the first hour of the meeting. Magoo was sitting bolt upright between my parents … Continue reading →

Posted in kid stuff, unbearable cuteness | 13 Comments

Comfort Objects are Us

Posted on May 20, 2009 by The Daring One

There’s nothing quite like a boy and his dad inhaling flannel together. [Read more at Parenting.com]

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