Seriously, the ads were ridiculous, but listening to Arwyn gripe and grumble about “Another one?! Start the movie!” was actually amusing. Definitely worth seeing it on the big screen, though, since I’ve been a fan of the movie since I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Arwyn has no patience for holidays and such, either; she just wanted to get it all done at once. And will do it again on Sunday, as well, of course. Anyway, twenty years of dealing with my sense of humour[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
She has a love-hate relationship with puns. Me? I have a love-love relationship with them, and I also love torturing my kids with puns. They’ll call out across the house to each other “Dad told a pun! Come help me[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On days when we’re not pushing them – be they weekends, holidays, or whatever – they could be “working on” getting dressed for a good half-hour. “Almost” could mean anything from one sock on to one sock left to put[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yeah, I was one of those few who were “oh, this is what ‘pitch black’ actually looks like – so cool!” In fact, I thought it was positively de-light-ful. 😀 Admittedly, I would’ve hated to have been one of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The eclipse was pretty cool to experience, though we did have the drama of a large cloud passing through during the few minutes right before its peak; it cleared just in time. We had the glasses, so the girls got[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
They each got a toy candy dispensers (like the coin operated kind) full of jelly beans, which apparently made it too much fun to dispense them. Once they were dispensed, of course, they HAD to be eaten before they went[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Arwyn is “tired” pretty much every schoolday morning, but is totally fine on weekends or days off. Heck, she’s even good to do a little Beatsaber to get the blood pumping in the mornings; it’s not until class starts that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There are some conversations with Kia that have long, winding tangents, and then there are those that are interrupted every thirty seconds because of DISTRACTION. She was standing next to the sliding door for the deck, so she had a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s still a little weird walking down there and everything being different than it had been for years, but it’s a really nice change. The girls can now skate laps around the loveseat we’ve got down there, plus game on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…