It had been a bad evening. Between little sleep due to a newborn, a long day at work, a three-year-old’s perfect-embodiment-of-an-upraised-middle-finger meltdown, and a previously house-trained dog’s homemade mud-wrestling-pit in the upstairs hall, my neurons were frazzled. Grumpy and resentful, I trundled the dogs out for their nighty walk, muttering and cursing to myself like […]
We don’t actually need to worry about Trump doing the bidding of the < Russians/corporations/white supremacists/your bugbear here >. This isn’t because any particular suspected evil Trump-maker didn’t actually do the evil someone thinks they did to get him elected. Trump won’t be paying back any favors to ‘X’ simply because the man has welshed […]
On-site teams report that incursion subject (Codename: “The Baby”) is a remarkable specimen. Subject displays unexplainable levels of strength and alertness, weighs in at at seven pounds, three ounces, and is eighteen inches of rapacious eating machine. Addendum: Observers posit that the subject may be evolutionarily related to the modern air-raid siren, but far outstrips […]
Baby action teams confirm full incursion! All holding actions have been exhausted, and we have a baby among us! Arabella Skye Hartley was born at 6:34 PM on the 14th of August, 2017. Momma and baby are currently feeding and napping simultaneously! More details will be broadcast as they become available…
While driving to day-care yesterday, our three-year old told me he wanted to play “The House Game”. The parameters of this game were rather fuzzy, at first, but it eventually became clear that he wanted to design imaginary houses with me. I’m not sure where this idea came from, but by the third try, we […]