Umma | January 28, 2009
The commute tonight was not fun. It snowed this morning, then it turned to sleet and finally it turned to a cold driving rain. The sidewalks in the neighborhood were a disaster, ankle deep water and slush were everywhere. I had to walk in the street and even that wasn’t entirely clear. Oh, and, this [...]
Umma | January 28, 2009
Vicki at Holly Daze presented me with this award. THANKS!
The rules for this award are as follows…
Choose a minimum of 7 blogs that you find brilliant in content or design.
Show the 7 winners’ names and links on your blog, and leave a comment informing them that they were prized with “Honest Scrap”.
List at least ten [...]
Umma | January 27, 2009
I present for you Monkey’s second favorite activity.
Cleaning.
I am a lucky, lucky Umma.
Umma | January 26, 2009
Sometimes I worry that people will think that we are overly permissive with Monkey because of his disability1. We run a very child-centered household for sure and we do it because we are trying to foster a sense of power in Monkey.
It seems to me that it would be very easy to feel powerless if [...]
Umma | January 25, 2009
I woke up to find our refrigerator handle looking like this:
Hmmm, I didn’t recall it looking like that when I went to bed. This isn’t looking good for that pumpkin pie Duhdee had baked, is it?
Well, it’s still covered but are those Monkey fingerprints in it?
Why, yes they are! He did say “Yumm” so I [...]
