Duncan’s been wearing a snorkel mask around lately,  he looks like Scuba Steve from Big Daddy. 

He told me,  as he was putting a cricket bat and ball into a bag, that he was off to play cricket.  I said, yeah - have fun. 
He looked at me,  quite grim,  and said,  MOM, I’m only […]

I’ve said it before,  but really,  truly,  I am no Martha Stewart.  People joke about not being able to boil water… I can boil water!  I just forget about it and it boils until there is none left and the pan is ruined.  This is why I love the electric kettle,  the water stays.  It […]

I was in the garden last night and I saw a May bug.  I have never seen one before, but they have been around a lot lately.  My IL’s assure me that they are perfectly safe.  Last week Duncan came running in the house and told me there was a hedgehog in the garden.  I […]

Gross displays of neglect.
My POOR baby.  He has decided that he does absolutely NOT require my assistance in getting dressed these days.  He constantly looks like a little hobo and changes his clothes about 12 times a day,  but that’s ok.  He’s mastering the art,  he’s practising his independence.  If I won’t let him go […]

Things I miss from childhood have been popping into my thoughts ever since I wrote the list of Five Things yesterday.  Also,  I have been coming up with ways that I haven’t entirely left my childhood behind.
Behold,   Five Things I Have Brought With Me From Childhood
1.)  I am a slob.  I hate to clean […]

My husband was being trollish yesterday,  he’s pissed off about his face and knees and feeling incapacitated and ornery.  I said to him, “How,  just tell me how you can be crabby when you have such a cute wife?!”
He asked what good a cute wife does him, and I said,  “You get to look at […]