Snotty doctors or snotty at the doctors

I’m not sure what the problem is with this doctors office or doc’s offices in general out here but every time I call, no matter how pleasant and polite I am, I get Nurse crappypants or Admin crankysnout on the phone. If you don’t like kids or their parents why did you become a pediatrician or work at a pediatrician’s… (more…)

somewhat uncomfortable

Someone I’ve been friends with since 1988, but for whatever reasons (I’m not sure what they are) fell out of my life several months ago (busy? paths diverging in too great a manner? The fact that we now live thousands of miles away from each other ). I got some sad news about her from her mom. So I just… (more…)

Spooky decor

The Bean is feeling sick today. Perhaps the big stay up late party (we let her have a late night every few months, this month she got two–Halloween and our friend’s birthday party –lots of her friends and screaming around) so I don’t have a lot of time –she needs her snuggling and a movie or two. A decorative retrospection… (more…)

It’s very late

A post during nablopomo 06 has been taken down.

Bean Mot re: farms

In the Bean’s preschool, when they were discussing Farms (it is F week in school) the teacher asked what happened on farms and where food came from. There were the predictable answers like chocolate milk from chocolate cows and the correct ones like you grow food on farms. Then the Beans: I want to have a camel farm and I… (more…)

The ides of November

I’d like to say I hate November. But I don’t. November is a beautiful time. Right after Halloween, oh the best day of the year. It’s fall. Too many leaves but tending towards crisp (when it isn’t in the 80s thanks to global warming, hey did you think I’d entirely remove politics from this post?)and magical. But in November 1982… (more…)

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