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?
Angel: Connor, this is Spike and Illyria. Guys, this is Connor. Connor: Hi. umm...I like your outfit. Illyria: Your body warms. This one is lusting after me. Connor: Oh...no, I--I--it's just that it's the outfit. I guess I've had a thing for older women. Angel: They were supposed to fix that.
'Origin'
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.
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
Cashmere - Jan 30, 2008 12:54:18 pm PST #6335 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
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.
Sheryl - Jan 30, 2008 1:37:02 pm PST #6337 of 10001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
I got nothing.....sorry.
sarameg - Jan 30, 2008 1:44:18 pm PST #6338 of 10001
Sox, one of my cousins was like that with her daughter at one point (from what I hear, she's since seen the light.) Eating out with them was like whoa. Afterwards, my mom and I were a bit stunned and feeling like meanies because we kept telling the child to stop whatever, and her parents would just laugh.
They kinda went overboard with the "let children be children" philosophy (lovely people, but very... philosophically bound at times.) Things started to change when she started pre-school (funnily enough, I think it was a super crunchy child led type place) and they discovered it wasn't helping her social skills at all.
hippocampus - Jan 30, 2008 1:52:50 pm PST #6339 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
They kinda went overboard with the "let children be children" philosophy
this was past that. waaay past that.
but yeah.
Kat - Jan 30, 2008 1:56:24 pm PST #6340 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Kristin, I took the 10. It took an hour to get home. Almost exactly an hour, actually. Which is par for the course. But I'm off 26th at work, so it made sense.
Noah is STILL at the doctors office. K took him to his appointment at 1:15. Apparently they were thinking about admitting him to the hospital but they are short staffed so nope. He'll come home and go back tomorrow. They think pneumonia. It's going to be a long night, isn't it?
hippocampus - Jan 30, 2008 1:57:37 pm PST #6341 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
oh poor bug! poor Kat! are they giving him anything?
Kat - Jan 30, 2008 2:00:32 pm PST #6342 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I don't know yet. I'd assume an antibio. He's still in the office. I had to go to work so K took him. He's been nebulized twice already. And a chest xray and bloodwork. Oddly, we called and got him in today because he had a low fever (3rd or so day of an on/off fever) and his soft spot was protruding.
Sigh.
Maybe investing in duct tape would help too?
I'd counsel against duct tape.... do you all not remember the story (with pictures!) of Laura's boys and the bad idea w/ duct tape?
§ ita § - Jan 30, 2008 2:04:49 pm PST #6343 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That was kid on kid duct tape. Whole different vibe.
Great. Left leg doing sausage impersonation. Painful sausage impersonation at that.