In the middle of writing a letter to Santa, something rather unsettling occurred to The Five-Year-Old: “Mommyo, when Santa brings you kitties, are they already spayed?” Mommyo: “Yes.” The Five-Year-Old, crossing out something in her letter to Santa: “Oh. I … Continue reading
I need a day to catch up on some things. You know what that means… Time for a Classic Caterpickle. For a girl obsessed with cats, The Four-Year-Old is oddly indifferent to the Disney movie The Aristocats. I suspect this … Continue reading
Another in my backlog of Mulberry posts: On the drive home from putting our cat Mulberry down last March, Mommyo, plaintively: “I don’t think I’m going to post on Caterpickles for a while.” The (then) Four-Year-Old, with great distress: “But … Continue reading
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For Christmas this year, The Five-Year-Old got a Fisher-Price Kid-Tough See Yourself Camera. She’s been working diligently on her photography and video skills ever since. We uploaded her latest crop of photos over the weekend, and I thought I’d take … Continue reading
A few short hits today, cuz it’s Friday and I want to get to my long weekend STAT. This week’s Friday news cocktail includes… A dollop of truth. From @JasonMGood: Needed: Placebo Bandaids. Johnson & Johnson, listen up. Mr. Good … Continue reading
The Five-Year-Old, petting Cozy, our eighteenish-year-old cat: “Ahhh, love is popping out of my heart.” Spring Break may be over, but apparently, I’m still out of words. Normal posting will hopefully resume sometime this week, assuming my verbal synapses ever … Continue reading
The Friday Science News Round-up is delayed this morning due to a prolonged editorial meeting over breakfast. After much debate, The Five-Year-Old and I agree that these are a few of the most interesting stories we’ve read this week. Baby … Continue reading
Another in my backlog of Mulberry posts… Scene: I’m sitting on the couch enjoying a few minutes of down time during Thanksgiving break, when The Five-Year-Old walked into the playroom, blue scissors in hand, and said, “Mom, the cat fur … Continue reading
… Is that watching them makes The Four-Year-Old very curious. And that means I spend an awful lot of time looking at pictures like this. After turning off a National Geographic special on the oceans last night, The Four-Year-Old asked: … Continue reading
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