When Mr. French speaks to you, en français, in a Target parking lot after hearing you speaking French to your (wiggly) children, ask him how long he was in France.
He will reply, en français, “Oh, only a year. My French is not very good.”
You will then reply, en français, “Oh no, it’s very good.” And then you will [...]
Entries from June 2009
June 30, 2009
How to compliment Mr. French, en français
June 26, 2009
I turn around for one second…
and this is what I get.
She was quite pleased with herself.
June 25, 2009
The moments of our lives
There are those moments in your life when you actually realize, at the time they are happening, that your life is changing forever.
That, from this day onward, things will be different.
For the better, you hope.
Graduating from school, getting married, having a baby.
In those moments, you’re usually astute enough to take a picture.
This was one of [...]
June 24, 2009
Fishing is for the birds.
(My best blog post titles are never acknowledged.)
(Just thought I’d point that out.)
(And now you’re beginning to think that this post is about “fishing” for compliments.)
(But then you’d be wrong.)
(Sort of.)
My Dad invited all his children to come for the weekend so that all the guys (his son and sons-in-law) could go fishing on Lake [...]
June 23, 2009
Kids: they make you liars 2.0
Felicity, I’ve mentioned before, does not like (i.e. to be held by, sit on laps of, take food from) people she does not know.
And by “know”, I mean people she sees every single day.
Except…
We went to see my parents last weekend. And no, it wasn’t Grandma, who was there the day she was born, who [...]
June 17, 2009
Kids: they make you liars
Remember when I waxed poetic about how Felicity doesn’t like bananas, just like me?
Yeah, well.
Now she loves them.
Yay? I guess.
Also, I was telling someone, within the last month or so, that none of my kids ever took to using pacifiers or sucking their thumbs. Not that I really cared. They just didn’t, you know?
Except recently, [...]
June 16, 2009
Orange you glad it’s not your birthday cake?
If you can’t guess, J’s favorite animal is a monkey.
His favorite color is orange.
When it’s not yellow and green, that is.
He wanted a monkey cake, but he does not like chocolate so we decided an orange monkey would be perfect.
I think he was okay with it. In his reserved sort of way.
Blowing out five [...]
June 12, 2009
Birthday conversations
Today is J’s birthday. We celebrated earlier this week because we were going to be too busy this weekend. (I will show pictures next week.)
Meanwhile, I’ll leave you with some birthday perspectives from the now-5-year-old.
This morning:
“Hey, J. You’re five years old now.” I said, after I remembered that he had been born early in the [...]
June 4, 2009
I just don’t understand it
Molly’s favorite spot in the house seems to be parked under the baby’s highchair.
Maybe I’m missing something, but I just can’t imagine the appeal of being pelted with rice and various other half-chewed foods throughout the meal.
Who in their right mind would put up with that?
(As an aside, has anyone else noticed that Felicity’s hair [...]
June 3, 2009
On second thought…
Tonight during dinner, C started talking about some new books he got from the library. Sometimes we have to correct some language/enunciation issues (with all of them, really) and this is how it went.
C: And this book was from the grow-up books.
Me: You mean growN-up books.
Mr. F: Oh, from the grown-up section? Or you could [...]
