This morning I was drinking a large glass of water. Ginger decided she wanted some and started taking sips in between shoving handfuls of Cheerios into her mouth.
When I attempted to reclaim my glass of water, I noticed a fair amount of Cheerios crumbles in the bottom of the cup. Ginger’s backwash.
I drank the water [...]
Archive for July, 2009
27 Jul
How To Stuff Your Child To The Gills
Any parent of a toddler knows the battle that can ensue at mealtime. Sometimes your child doesn’t like what you are serving. Sometimes your child simply refuses to eat, period, despite the fact that you are serving French fries, chocolate cake, and large dollop of candy-coated lard.
My darling Ginger likes to scare me by not eating [...]
21 Jul
Ginger Gets Devilish
For anyone who doubted the veracity of my claim that Ginger had scrawled satanic verses all over our driveway, I present this small art project that Ginger brought home from camp last week. The top of the shell was painted, and apparently Ginger decided to show off her writing skills, which consist of only three [...]
20 Jul
I Love You, Now Go Away
Here is one of the many ironies of parenthood: you love your children to pieces, but want nothing to do with them.
I exaggerate, but only slightly. In a nutshell, Ginger is now 3 years old and is full – FULL – of energy. We could do step aerobics all day long and she’d [...]
10 Jul
Learning To Write
Ginger is starting to write letters and someone close to her, who shall go unidentified for reasons you are about to understand, has been trying to teach her some letters. The letters this person has chosen to teach include E, a first initial of someone in the family, H for some unknown reason, and [...]
