I'm not sure where it came from, but Max and I decided that Simba (from The Lion King ) goes "wiggle wiggle pounce!". We have taught Jack that, starting when he was just a wee small baby. We extended that to all cats, ferrets, and occasionally other animals as well. Last night, Dino (pronounced Dye-No, not like The Flinstones ' character) was "wiggle wiggle pouncing" on Jack's new blocks. When it...

If you know me in real life, then you know I say "I'm sorry" a lot. Not as much as  jayspec  , but certainly on the top ten "I'm sorry" sayers list.   My father, on the other hand, never apologizes. For anything.  He sent me a box of books without asking. The box fell apart and all the books were lost. The books were the entire Trixie Belden series, which is now out of print. Some of the individual...

Happy Birthday, jayspec !

A few people ( jayspec  ,  mollyx  ,  yokie  ,  jamies_garden  ,  maisfeeka  ) know Ben & Shawna. Ben was one of our best men, and Shawna is his wife. They had twins last week, very prematurely. They set up a blog . I created an LJ feed for it ( benshawnatwins  ). I figured that at least the New England people might know other people who would want to  know...