Losing my dad's dad was really hard for me, but his funeral was a lot like what Cash described -- lots of stories and laughter and an amazingly Dixieland version of "Amazing Grace" during the ceremony that he would have loved.

ION, we just had major unexpected toddler pukage. On. Our. Bed. I foresee laundry this evening.

{{Daisy Jane}} My thoughts are with you and your family. 96 is a good life, one to remember and make family legends out of. My sympathies are with you.

ION, we just had major unexpected toddler pukage. On. Our. Bed. I foresee laundry this evening.

Oh, no. Poor Sara. I hope she feels better (and that it goes right away).

Daisy, honey, I'm so sorry.

I honestly don't know where the strength comes from! Bless every single parent among you.

Costco? Wherever it is, I had a sudden run on needing it about ten minutes ago when my toddler suddenly stuck her short, sharp-nailed finger UP MY FUCKING NOSE and then laughed at my scream of pain as she punctured the skin on the inside of it. My eyes crossed and watered with the pain of it, and right now, I am sitting with a tissue shoved up my nostril to keep blood from dripping everywhere.

Ouch. Ouch. Ouch.

Oh, OUCH, Plei. The physical indignity of motherhood really drives me nuts sometimes.

Sara's fine now, Cindy. I don't know what happened. One minute she was down here saying good night to me, and two minutes later she was howling upstairs and Ben was running down to spread the word while Stephen mopped her up.

It's so sad -- whenever she throws up, she gets this horribly vulnerable look on her face: "My body has betrayed me! In the grossest way possible!"

Costco? Wherever it is, I had a sudden run on needing it about ten minutes ago when my toddler suddenly stuck her short, sharp-nailed finger UP MY FUCKING NOSE and then laughed at my scream of pain as she punctured the skin on the inside of it. My eyes crossed and watered with the pain of it, and right now, I am sitting with a tissue shoved up my nostril to keep blood from dripping everywhere.

Its karmic vengance for the Kissinger thing. I'm sure of it.

Aw! Bless you people with small children.

I, however, need no small child to make bad adventures happen to me. This afternoon, as I was walking down the (shallow, carpeted) steps, carrying two laptops, I slipped and began to fall gracelessly downwards. Being as they were very shallow and my bum is not as shallow, I didn't stop. Oh, no. I kept going until I had hit the bottom, slamming the computers into my face a couple of times and sustaining very unpleasant carpet burns and bruises to various locales on my body.

Needless to say, ow.

But you will be happy to know that the computers were just fine.

It's so sad -- whenever she throws up, she gets this horribly vulnerable look on her face: "My body has betrayed me! In the grossest way possible!"

I'm right there with her, Amy.

Chris threw up on Christmas night, last year. This Christmas (well, from about 12/23 on) he fretted about it. I finally pointed out to him that he hadn't been sick on five other Christmases, and that it was germs, not the calendar, that cause a person to catch a virus. He was not convinced.

Poor barfy Sara. That's like that scene in Parenthood.

The physical indignity of motherhood really drives me nuts sometimes.

Owen likes to head-butt me in the chest AND stick his fingers in my mouth. Liv's the nose-explorer in our house.

And dammit, if baby fingernails are not sharper than fancy, German, steel, kitchen knives. I try to keep my kids' nails uber short because they scratch me AND themselves.

DH is in the middle of a mild stretch of agoraphobia. He's called into work for the last part of this week because he just doesn't feel like leaving the house. Or doing much of anything.

Ugh. My sympathies to him.

And dammit, if baby fingernails are not sharper than fancy, German, steel, kitchen knives. I try to keep my kids' nails uber short because they scratch me AND themselves.

It's true. Diamonds have nothing on baby nails.