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Moshi Monsters and Vegan Cupcakes

Dear People Who Came Up With Moshi Monsters, an Online Game Where Kids Can Create Their Own Lovable Monster and Then Spend Every Moment of Their Time Caring for This Thing to Keep it Alive:

I hate you.

Hugs and kisses,

Julie

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Dear Lovely Little Vegan Cafe Where I Bought Two “Chocolate Brownie” Cupcakes Last Night:

Zucchini + applesauce does [...]

The zoo sucks.

This photo perfectly captures yesterday's zoo experience. I feel you, kid.

I took the kids to the zoo yesterday, and can we all agree that the zoo is not the great, fun activity it always seems like it will be at the outset?  Here are the events surrounding the zoo trip:

1. Took kids to Target [...]

Two Things…

1. When I told Dave about the DRTBAG license plate, he suggested that maybe this guy meant “Dr. Teabag.”  As if that’s better.

2. Gabby hurled her Weenie Wednesday hot dog and fries all over the van; also the Target parking lot; also Addie J’s feet as she sat helpless and freaking in her carseat.  I [...]

Highlight Reel.....

…..from our last two days in the city. On Tuesday my mom, Jill and her girls accompanied us to the Field Museum. Then the kids and I plus Cammy’s friend stayed overnight downtown and spent Wednesday kicking around the city. Here is some of the crap that went down:

1. Addie started the trip by skidding [...]

Dave Again…

…So we stayed downtown on Wednesday night and just came back yesterday evening.  Addie J thought we were only staying at a hotel because we were lost; Gabby was shocked that we left our luggage on the curb and flat-out didn’t believe that the bellman was going to send it upstairs; and Cameron executed a perfect [...]

Cultural Sensitivity

So we were at a Mexican place this morning for breakfast.  Addie J saw a poster of a man in a sombrero and started shouting, “LOOKIT THE PIRATE MAN IN THE RAIN FOREST!!!!!!!”

I don’t know.  I think I need to do a better job teaching her about other cultures so that she doesn’t grow up [...]

I Swear to You…..

…that this is how Addie J and Gabby hung out at Panera yesterday.  Please remember that the J can’t read, and that Gabby couldn’t care less what the news is, unless it directly involves her.  Yet they snuggled into these chairs, picked up the freaking newspaper, and pretended to be adults. 

For what it’s worth: when [...]

Gabby the Irish Dancer

So Gabby’s Irish Dance recital was Sunday. She was hilarious and awesome, which is her MO for life basically. You know how, when you’re watching a dance recital, one or two dancers will perform while the rest hold a pretty pose at the side?

…Yeah. Gabby proved incapable of holding still during these [...]

More quotable quotes…

Dave and Addie J always come and have lunch with me on Wednesdays, which are the days that I’m running around from Columbia College to JJC.   The two of them meet me in my classroom with takeout (isn’t that awesome, by the way?).  Addie usually her lunch, then demands that I put Spongebob on the projector [...]

Haircuts

I finally took the J to the salon to fix Gabby’s butchering of Addie’s head.  This story is best told in photos:

Please realize that, prior to the cut, Addie’s hair was all one length.  Now she’s got this uneven mullet. 

 Here she is getting her hair washed at the salon– just before she decided to opt [...]

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