Ellie, commenting on my ahem swift enjoyment of a Mickey bar: “Wow, Mama, you’re almost done already?!?”
Gwen, without missing a beat and with no trace of irony: “It’s her big mouth.”
Asides
tales of a creepy doll carriage
I have a photo on another French book cover! This time a reprint of Un soupçon légitime by Stefan Zweig.
I took this photo in 2003 with a Pentax K1000 camera and slide film, then had the film cross-processed–probably at my local Target, since they never knew what to charge for processing film without prints, so they’d just do it for free!
This old-school doll carriage was my mother’s as a little girl, and it featured in a number of other photo shoots over the years. Now it sits in my office and occasionally amuses my kids when I let them play with it.
shower thoughts about showers
Alternative name for the shower: Hot rain machine.
Ellie made up a joke…
What happened to the ketchup thief?
He was caught red-handed. 😂
Intergalactic
One of my “non-resolution resolutions” this year is to take more baths. We have a beautiful old tub but I never take advantage of it, and that needs to change! I bought a handful of LUSH bath bombs to encourage me, and tried the first one today. So pretty!
…yay?
I’ve reached a new stage of adulthood where I no longer have anxiety dreams about missing class or forgetting my homework; instead, I have anxiety dreams about missing flights and botched home renovation projects.
Saturday night dinner jokes
Ellie: What does a taco say in the morning? “Taco-doodle-doo!”
Me: What do you call a taco that can’t talk? An O.
Gwen: What does the taco say when it wakes up? “Wake up everyone! Tacos are the best!!!”
Achievement Unlocked?
Today I was asked if the two girls playing in the lake were my grandchildren.
My youngest just tried to pass off a packet of ketchup as a bedtime snack.
I actually had to pause and think if I wanted to fight this particular battle before saying “no”, which tells you everything you need to know about how my summer is going.
Everyone’s a comedian.
Me: Do you have those two checks I gave you yesterday?
Tim: Pretty sure they’re in my wallet, but I’ll have to … … … double check. 😉