8th
October
2007
Stuff
posted in Adoption, Miscellaneous, News, OmegaDotter, Pop Culture |OmegaMom has a blank brain today, so it’s time for a bunch of quickies.
- Surely there’s more to this story than reported? Can one be charged as a terrorist for having a copy of a book? I shudder to think of the things in my parents’ library; dad was both into chemistry and into things that go boom as a young lad. Dad’s pictures that alternate from a Rasputin-lookalike to an excellent facsimile of a skinhead would just make the HSA agents quiver like bloodhounds…
- An excellent description of a newly adopted child with attachment issues and how the parents coped and broke through to the child. (Warning: requires registration, but a very moving and well-worth-it listen.)
- A recent MSNBC front page featured two stories closely juxtaposed: “Is Your Child Ready For a Credit Card?” and “Feeling the Middle Class Economic Crunch?” Hm. You don’t happen to think those two things just might possibly be related, do you??
- The dotter is being Gloria The Firehouse Dog quite often lately. She sits and barks at the kitchen door. OmegaDad put his foot down when she carefully brought him one of my Tevas in her mouth.
- Figlet asks “What did we do pre-Google??” ProjectNiHao says, quite plainly, that it was a nightmare finding things pre-Google. PNH and Theresa both have dealt with similar sock issues (Theresa had an ingenious approach of turning the socks inside out, though that would only work with non-patterned socks), and Courtney says that Laura at 11D is having the same issues with her son. But, back to pre-Google–or, more properly, pre-Internet–times: I read an awful lot more books then. And went shopping. Outside.
- We are having real homework now. It’s no big whoop, just copying zeroes, ones, and twos, and answering questions about what to do if there’s a fire (it’s Fire Safety week).
