From the monthly archives:

June 2007

There ain’t nothin’ wrong with eatin’

June 30, 2007

I’ve seen this restaurant meme going around all over the place and I kind of filed it away as something I might do at some point, but I’ve been so busy, what with all the fish death and cake baking, that I forgot about it. But then, Tracey at More than a Minivan Mom actually [...]

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An update on the newly bereaved…and also, cake

June 29, 2007

Last night in our panic to dispose of Nemo’s body, P provided a moment of distraction by taking Caroline out to look at “something” on the front porch, while I frantically ran, fish bowl in hand, towards our master bathroom to flush away the evidence. I was in a state of panic over the need [...]

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Nemo sleeps with the fishes

June 28, 2007

Nemo is dead. No, not that Nemo. Not the little clownfish from the reef. I’m talking about our Nemo, the betta fish that Santa brought for Caroline this past Christmas. I noticed yesterday that he was, literally, looking a little green around the gills. Who knew that was a real thing and not just something [...]

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Oh I would, but I just don’t want to

June 27, 2007

I’m so glad that y’all got as big of a kick as I did over my fab new blouse. But for the record, if y’all think I’m going to put that thing on and take a picture of myself in it and post it on the World Wide Web for God and whoever, or whomever, [...]

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I didn’t know the meaning of embarrassment until I was a mama

June 26, 2007

This morning, while it was still just the heat equivalent of being baked in an oven as opposed to being dropped in a Fry Daddy filled with boiling oil, Caroline and I went to the park. She went down the slides and played on the various playscapes and then said, “Come on, Mama! Let’s go [...]

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