The great laptop drowning of 2012

This post was tentatively titled “Why I didn’t yell at the kid who dumped coffee in my laptop” and also ”kijiji is no place for your adorable children” but I figured I’d start at the beginning. So after a bit of crazy week, I got up Saturday morning with my youngest, and took her downstairs for some quiet playtime.  My oldest was already up, getting in some Wii time in the basement, and...

Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrot

Sometimes timing is everything. Sometimes crazy and brilliant come together in a memorable way. Like this week, when I felt a special kind of goofy descend upon our family.  It didn’t last long, but for four days it felt like I was spinning plates.  Just a lot of things going sideways or adding trouble to an already busy routine:  the babe starting a new daycare, the temperature dropping to nearly minus 50 degrees...