Filed Under Missylaneous » Adventures in Abbydom

Mea Culpa

Missy — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:43:07 +0000

“Mommy, I have to tell you something, but you have to promise you won’t tell Daddy.”

For the record? Nothing good ever starts this way. Ever.

“Sweetie, Daddy and I are your parents together, so if I think there’s something I need to tell him, I’m going to tell him. Now what do you [...]

Shopping with Abby

Missy — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:00:10 +0000

“Abby, what do you say we go to Target and do your Christmas shopping tomorrow? You know, so you can buy presents for Grandma and Uncle Jon and Daddy and everybody?”

“NO MOMMY!! I DON’T WANT TO BUY PRESENTS!! WAAAAAAAHHH!!”

Apparently, Abby thought that if she bought presents for everyone, she would not get [...]

Hole in Her Head

Missy — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:20:37 +0000

Let’s play spot the difference, shall we? Can you spot the differences between these two pictures? Both were taken yesterday, about 5 hours apart. All were taken with the same camera, and I used a flash in both pictures , which is unusual in and of itself.

There’s the headband, of course. [...]

The Littlest (Book) Worm

Missy — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:39:23 +0000

If that post title instantly has you singing a Girl Scout camp song that makes you want to stick a letter opener in your ears to just MAKE IT STOP ALREADY – well, I’m sorry. I kind of like that song. But this post isn’t about a tiny worm stuck in a soda straw. [...]

This is Halloween, This is Halloween…

Missy — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:54:48 +0000

(Yes, we let Abby watch The Nightmare Before Christmas this weekend.)

(No, it was not entirely for my edification. She actually enjoyed the movie.)

I love Halloween! It’s one of my favorite holidays, with the costumes and the candy and the silly, scary stuff. Abby seems to be really having fun with it this [...]

Typical American Family

Missy — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:35:33 +0000

We have been watching a lot of episodes of the Cosby Show lately. Abby has fallen in love with the characters and Brian and I have fallen back in love with the writing and snappy dialogue. (We were both around 7 when the show premiered and remember watching it with OUR parents as kids.) [...]

Daddy get your gun

Missy — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:02:06 +0000

It’s long been an understanding between my husband and his heterosexual life partner, Jake, that whenever the first one’s first daughter started dating, the other would show up at the house with whatever intimidating weapon was handy and “talk some sense” into the young suitor. Nevermind that we live 3 1/2 hours apart. Nevermind [...]

How very Victorian

Missy — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:18:23 +0000

Last night, my child went to bed without supper. Doesn’t that sound like something out of a Victorian play? “Agatha, you have misbehaved most egregiously. Go to bed without supper!”

It wasn’t really like that. I didn’t have a British accent, for one thing. And we did feed the kid (crackers and a banana [...]

New normal

Missy — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:36:59 +0000

Today is Abby’s second full day of Pre-K. It’s funny how much more “school-y” her new school is. That’s probably because it’s a full-on Catholic elementary school, huh?

We’re settling into a whole new routine here. At dinner, Abby gets to pick from the homemade “menu” of lunch choices for the next day so [...]

Vacation wrap-up

Missy — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 17:40:38 +0000

First off, thanks to all of you who expressed doubt in my estimate of when Abby will have her preschool classroom completely under her control. I tend to agree with you, three weeks was a rather conservative estimate. Especially since her teacher told me at pickup yesterday, “You have a very bright young lady [...]