Over the weekend, while my daughter and husband played Minecraft, I was painting a cat in a fez. It’s fun to paint cats in hats. I painted the background first, then the fez, then finally the cat itself, which I envisioned as a Russian Blue. I was painting it grey. Zanimal, age 10, came up… Read more »
When the Zanimal was in preschool and still called Little Z, we used to ride together in the morning. I would take her to preschool, and then go on to work. She went through this phase when she was three or four years old, when she would tell me when I looked pretty, and when… Read more »
My dear sweet daughter offered to clean the cat’s litter box last Saturday morning. What a sweetheart! I was sitting and eating my breakfast. “Can I clean off the bottom really well? You don’t seem to ever really clean it that well,” she called from the bathroom. “Sure. Of course.” I was drinking my coffee…. Read more »
Things she does: Poops Pees Brushes her hair Reads Harry Potter Plays video games Video chats with Grandma Kathleen Scrapbooking (organizing photos, writing captions. Etc.) Things she does not do: Flush the toilet
We have so much to do around here in Spring. There are lambs being born, meat chickens to take care of, plants to start indoors and transplant, mowing, weeding, planting, end of school stuff, planning for summer stuff, 4-h events, registering for the fair, getting all of our ducks in a row for summer camps… Read more »
My daughter brought this book home from the fourth grade book swap. The fourth grade book swap just isn’t what it used to be, is it? They grow up so fast. Sigh. Inside the back cover, we read that this book is about a newly divorced Londoner who goes to Vermont and stumbles upon a… Read more »
Zanimal and I always listen to The Decemberist’s album The King is Dead in the car, when I’m chauffeuring her around, as parents do these days. We hypothesize that Avery is a cat. I think someday, she will hear the Decemberists and be brought magically back to her childhood drives with me. This is the… Read more »
This afternoon, my daughter and I played a friendly game of, Let’s Spread Out That Net We Found at the Dumps Today and See How Big It Is! For better or worse, we don’t have trash service. The up side is that we find treasures occasionally. I’ve been wanting some netting to prop up the… Read more »
Fourth grade. This is the box where the other kids will put her Valentines. Valentines are a big deal, apparently. Zanimal said, “I want to win the contest. I mean, there isn’t a contest, but I want it to be like if there were a contest, I would be the one to win it, you… Read more »
