YAY negative tests all around!!

A couple of Mr. S's front teeth are loose. Of course, he won't stop looking at/poking at them.

yep that is what kids do. he'll just keep bothering at them and he'll fuss about them and he might want to pull them and then be scared to pull them and eventually they will come out.

We have the ubiquitous and always-at-the ready clear plastic lowball glass and a square of sturdy cardboard for spider removal. I have caught a spider in my bathroom in the middle of the night and left him, or her, on the kitchen counter in a prominent place so the first one up could release her into the wild, rather than turning on the outside lights and scaring the neighbors at 3AM. But we also have a swatter, so whatever the occasion calls for.

Toddson, the center guy looks like an Osmond.

My kid cried for days because he swallowed his first loose tooth and the Tooth Fairy wouldn't come. Thereupon followed a lengthy, years-long correspondence with both kids and The Tooth Fairy, primarily about the exchange of money for teeth, but also eventually ranging into wider subjects. It was fun. Signed, Your Friend, TTF.

Oh--forgot to add, YAY! for negative tests!

My mother's been going through old papers, and found the outline of a "lifelong learning" class my father taught years ago called "The history of the Christian church in the US." The first class?
What is history?
What is the Christian church?
What is the United States?
LOVE

Every time I think about the tooth fairy I picture the one from The Santa Clause because so adorable.

I want to kick him in the head.

Wear your skates.

Msbelle, the book scene sounds familiar to me. Was it Devine Secrets of the Yaya Sisterhood?

If you've never knocked over a full bottle of olive oil so it lands in just the right way for the glass to shatter and spill all over your kitchen, I cannot recommend it.

I am blaming the spider for this because I was trying to move things around so I could get at it. The spider has defeated me and will live on another day, it seems.

If you've never knocked over a full bottle of olive oil so it lands in just the right way for the glass to shatter and spill all over your kitchen, I cannot recommend it.

Oooh. That is a motherfucker to cleanup. And from the moment it happens you know what a dire project it will be to clean.

It's bad to contemplate and even worse to execute.

The spider has defeated me and will live on another day, it seems.

The spider is WAY up on you after Day 1.

Indeed it was at motherfucker to clean up. I'll have to check in the morning to see if I missed anything when I'm not as wild-eyed and defeated.

I'll also see if baking soda and dish soap will work on the towels I used after I got as much as I could with a kitchen scraper, bowls, and a dustpan. I double bagged everything and immediately took the garbage out.

when I'm not as wild-eyed and defeated.

I am personally feeling dead-eyed and defeated after the latest round of SFUSD not placing Matilda in a high school at all.

It is very likely that when the school year starts she won't have a High School assignment. Indeed, it may be three or more weeks which is NOT an ideal way to begin high school at a new place.

They won't give her a high school?? That's insane! I can't even imagine.

Shrift that would be a pain. Ugh.

I have agreed to adopt a recently born puppy. Now I am freaking out and second guessing myself and completely unsure if that's something I can do. Like, I have no idea what to do with a puppy to make it become a Good Doggo?? (I wouldn't get it for a couple months, because it was just born)