August 2008
1 post
The Fine Art of Negotiation
sister “how bout if I give you a cookie?”
brother “where would you get this fabled cookie?”
sister “I know where there are cookies.”
brother “the Oreos in the kitchen don’t count.”
sister “I know of better cookies in the kitchen.”
brother “you do?”
sister brings a bag of tempting Pepperidge Farm large super chunk...
June 2008
2 posts
Sadness Is Imminent
And it’s been a long time coming.
Back in 1999 my brother and his (then girlfriend, now) wife took a year off and traveled around the world. They left from Boston and went to Portugal and from Portugal they flew to South Africa. Then they hitched their way up the dark continent and through the middle east over the Himalayas and through Tibet. When they got to Thailand (I think) they...
Threats
For some reason these threats cause me to laugh uncontrollably …
“Shut your mouth, or I’ll kick you so hard you’ll be wearing your ass for a hat.”
and
“If you don’t do XXX, I rip your arm off and beat you with the wet end.”
They just make me giggle in the beginning because of their unreasonableness and then laugh out loud because I imagine a...
May 2008
1 post
Homeschool Hilarity
The kids study history in sequential fashion and I supplement their curriculum with packets from Jackdaws. Jackdaws are replicas of original documents from a particular period in history that are orginized around a particular subject. Right now J is working his way through a packet called California Gold Rush and is about the gold rush of 1848-1849. Today he asked to go outside and play, I...