A breakfast joint near us has a sign "Unattended children will be sold as slaves." Imma thinking unattended children aren't popular many places.
Xander: We just saw the zebras mating! Thank you, very exciting... Willow: It was like the Heimlich, with stripes!
'Him'
Natter 56: ...we need the writers.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Laura - Jan 30, 2008 12:35:55 pm PST #6327 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
tommyrot - Jan 30, 2008 12:36:57 pm PST #6328 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Imma thinking unattended children aren't popular many places.
Yeah. Ever since they were responsible for the fall of the Roman Empire....
Cashmere - Jan 30, 2008 12:37:48 pm PST #6329 of 10001
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Maybe investing in duct tape would help too?
So. Damned. Tempting.
I'll flirt with child abuse. Really. Not that I'd do anything but I can think about it.
The trick is to direct their naughty activities into constructive ones. How the fuck I'm supposed to do that is beyond me. I did call my mother and apologize profusely for every mark and "drawing" I ever made on her walls.
I'm sure she's going to get that voicemail and pee her pants laughing.
brenda m - Jan 30, 2008 12:39:48 pm PST #6330 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Jimmy Carter's skating damn close to an Obama endorsement: [link]
Oh Jimmy. "Tittilating." I think only you could possibly get away with that.
sarameg - Jan 30, 2008 12:42:33 pm PST #6331 of 10001
My SIL swore by those crayola markers that only work on a certain kind of paper. That was the approach they took when D was 2-3 or so. Of course, all bets were off in some ways because my brother would leave sharpies lying around. (Which lead to the child with the fully sharpie- colored feet, and quite the masterpiece of the floor and wall. )
But when he was using the markers he was allowed to, it was contained.
Pix - Jan 30, 2008 12:43:55 pm PST #6332 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
Argh. Just got this email from our transportation coordinator:
It is a presidential visit and It has already closed and re-opened. At some point later today the motorcade will be coming back our way and they will shut everything down again. However, we have no idea what time that will be.So commute, not so good after all. I'm going to run out of here at the stroke of 3 and hope to skirt past the worst of it.
Cashmere - Jan 30, 2008 12:49:14 pm PST #6333 of 10001
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My SIL swore by those crayola markers that only work on a certain kind of paper. That was the approach they took when D was 2-3 or so. Of course, all bets were off in some ways because my brother would leave sharpies lying around. (Which lead to the child with the fully sharpie- colored feet, and quite the masterpiece of the floor and wall. )
We have the Color Safe markers and they're great! I've been trying to branch out into other crafty stuff for them because of the rotten, cold weather keeping us inside. I've done my best to secure any ordinance but this morning, the delivery guy didn't have a working pen so I took a ball point out to sign the order sheet and somehow, forgot to put it up out of Owen's reach.
The result was that he drew giant circles on the walls of the playroom. It's not a complete disaster because I can scrub it all off with the Magic Erasers.
We've had a long conversation about the proper place to draw (PAPER ONLY) and I hope it sticks. I just have to be careful until the lesson sinks in. This started right after he started school so I think maybe the chalk board or the art he's been doing there is jump starting his creativity.
I've been planning on putting an easel down there for the kids or maybe putting up some dry erase/magnet panels for them on the walls so they can draw anyway and this is just my impetus for doing that sooner, rather than later.
brenda m - Jan 30, 2008 12:51:52 pm PST #6334 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
What about painting the playroom with that chalkboard paint and letting them go nuts with it? Or would containing it to the one room be too much of a wild card?
Cashmere - Jan 30, 2008 12:54:18 pm PST #6335 of 10001
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What about painting the playroom with that chalkboard paint and letting them go nuts with it? Or would containing it to the one room be too much of a wild card?
That's a good idea. We do have a corner we could do that in. I'm checking my options and what would be easiest to do.
hippocampus - Jan 30, 2008 1:07:49 pm PST #6336 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
Note to self: start buying Mr. Clean Magic Erasers in bulk.
oh no.
unattended children.
Thing is... (and I hope I don't offend anyone) - in Baltimore there was a family we knew who thought of restaurants and shops as free babysitting. Not exhausted parents, by any means. they had a nanny. They were just used to it. I got really angry after her son did something absolutely crazy and muttered something like "she may just be the reason people glare when they see ANY toddler now." Of course, with my badmouth-karma, she was just coming around the corner and I still don't know if she heard me.