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Archive for April, 2008

We finally got a call on Saturday afternoon from the HOA, giving us permission to put up Alex’s new playset.  Almost a month after putting in the application.
Installation is set for May 15th.  It would have been sooner if the HOA had gotten back to us last week, when the playset company wasn’t so booked [...]

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Nothing says California more than Mickey (check), sunshine (check), sand (see below) and shopping. So we went to the most surreal shopping “experience” that we could think of - The Grove. For those of you who have never been there, it’s an outdoor mall in Hollywood, right next to the CBS studios. [...]

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The Waiting Game

I’m used to waiting. After all, I’m a mother. I wait for Alex to stop his third tantrum of the day over a light switch. I wait in line at Costco while the family in front of me prepares for Armegeddon with their cartload of bottled water. I wait for the day that [...]

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Dear Sephora,

Damn you. Damn you and your multi-colored goodness, your great music and hip little shiny bags that I seem to have been collecting a lot of lately.
I’ve recently been bit by the makeup bug. A good friend of mine sent me a Sephora card for Christmas last year and….well…I’ve been hooked ever since. [...]

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The past few weeks have been linguistically crazy for Alex. It’s as if his brain suddenly decided to play some catch up.
It started with this list of words, that came within one week:

Just in case you can’t read my writing, that’s “uh-oh, home, bear, big, story, door, ah-ha and bulb.”
Then, this past week, this [...]

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