Revelry Reverie

Herein lies a single spoiler for today’s NYT crossword. My dear Will Shortz and co., let me begin by saying that I adore that Tumblr made it into today’s crossword. Seeing the clue “Many a Tumblr share” literally made me gasp in delight over my tea this morning. For many of us at Tumblr, this…

Henry had to have a tooth pulled recently (his mouth is too small and his baby teeth are hanging on for dear life), and he’s been dutifully putting the tooth under his pillow, to no avail. 😬 Finally, last night he wrote a strongly worded note to the tooth fairy and taped the tooth to…

This got long. I spent some time recently digging into shitpost as a concept. My favorite take on it is from this article from Polygon, called “Shitposting is an art, if history is any indication,” and it draws a pretty compelling connection between shitposting today and Dadaist art (you know, Marcel Duchamp and his R.…

On Tuesday or Wednesday, when I picked up Grant, he told me he was making me a drawing at school. He said it wasn’t ready yet, but it said “I l… I’m not going to tell you what it says, but you’ll like it. Guess. It says (whispers) love! I love you mom!” I find…

I saw some frosted trees in front of a brick building on my walk to my office this morning.

Eleanor put on a new pair of jeans today, and it’s unusual for her. Most of her bottoms are shorts, skirts, skorts, leggings, and sweats. And this one pair of jeans. I said, “those look nice, how do they feel?” She said, “well. I don’t usually like jeans because the rim is itchy and uncomfortable.”…

To start, since November, the kids have had 12 separate tooth-related appointments at 3 different providers (regular dentist, pediatric dentist, and orthodontist). All three kids see the regular dentist, but to get fillings/extractions, Henry and Grant need to go to the pediatric dentist, because their mouths are so small (and Eleanor can see the regular…

We had to start a little early on Saturday to rally the kids and wrangle them into the car. We all went with Bob to support him in his race, the annual Shamrock Run in Buffalo. It’s an 8k, which is a race length I did not know about (though I conceptually know about eight…

Grant called me over to show me this house he built in Minecraft. As he was showing me he goes “this house is just full of…” and he kind of trailed off. Since the house had about 50 bunnies stuffed in it, in an effort to be helpful, I said, “bunnies.” Incorrect. He was referring…

Bob was able to catch Grant reading one of his favorite books at bedtime.