Chomp, chomp
Seriously, three years old?
Here’s Alek describing his birthday in his own words:
“And then there was a cake! Yeah, and presents! And I, ATE THE CAKE! I pushed it all into my mouth, and then it went down into my belly, and then it was [sad clown voice] ALL GONE… But then I was [...]
Stand still for one Christly second, will you?
If your own personal paper version of this has not yet reached your presumably holly-decked halls, feel free to blame the Bulgarian postal service, and/or us. While the photo session that ultimately produced this card was held before the snow flew, the actual producing, writing, and mailing [...]
Did I mention crab salad? CRAB SALAD. With Old Bay Seasoning courtesy of Jane, that’s crab salad.
The debate rages on about who loves who(m) more. When I say “All the way,” Magda wants to know how far that is. All the way where? “To the Crab Nebula,” I reply. “And back.”
“How far is that?”
[Two Googly [...]
We’re off to the north for what Adam fervently hopes will be a white Christmas. Whether Santa will put in an appearance is contingent upon a certain skinny elf’s airplane comportment. Just to be safe, we scattered some white around the place, produced our own Santa-like homunculus, and broke out the camera.
Jolly Old Saint Nick [...]
Me: What are you making, honey?
Magda: I wanted to make some pickled pumpkin.
Me: You know, I seem to have heard that Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pumpkin.
Magda: Did he?
Me: Yes.
Magda: Jerk.
Extreme cross-reference: Bo Peep
Loathsome to such as are not acquainted with it…they make diverse sorts of [chocolate], some hot, some cold, and some temperate, and put therein much of that “chili”; yea, they make paste thereof, the which they say is good for the stomach and against the catarrh.
–Jose de Acosta, Jesuit missionary [via Wikipedia's History of Chocolate]
More excuses to use our tripod:
Pétards with avatars
7th Apr 10
hey! i saw one of these hanging off a tree down the block the other day. i kind of love ...
6th Apr 10
Fascinating. I saw these pictures pop up and wondered what bizarre hazing ritual you were being subjected to by your ...
6th Apr 10
It is a really interesting and charming tradition, and I am nowhere near as cynical about it as this post ...
6th Apr 10
What an interesting tradition. Thanks for sharing. They're biodegradable, I hope. Or do some trees still have their paraphernalia from Martenitsi ...
6th Apr 10
[...] where they seem really quite happy no matter how much poison Magda lobs at them. It’s Ant War [...]