Wouldn’t it have been awesome if E! had run a special during the Superbowl with Kendra from the Girls Next Door and Kim Kardashian from Keeping Up With The Kardashians sitting next to each other while their husband/boyfriend played against each other on the field? I bet there would have been combat.  Nails broken, hair [...]

7:30: Whole family awakes and eats cereal together.  Cozy!8:04: Listening to NPR, Mommy begins to expound on American jingoism and xenophobia as it relates to terrorist treatment under the legal system. C. interrupts by yelling “Mommy!” sharply because he needs the cap taken off the red marker.  Daddy seems relieved to be spared diatribe.9:00: C. [...]

It’s day five of the Great Snowmaggedon of DC and we’re relatively unscathed.  Today we ventured to target and handed over a small fistful of money in exchange for toys that aren’t already boring C. stiff and a new Sesame Street DVD that isn’t already boring Mommy stiff (if I have to see Elmo guard [...]

The snow is falling outside.  Falling, and falling, and falling.  The snow is supposed to keep falling until late tomorrow.  Reports are we’re going to get up to three feet of snow.  Three.  Feet. When will the roads be cleared?  No one knows.  Maybe never.  Maybe I’ll be stuck in m house with my husband [...]

I understand that real estate on metro during the morning rush is valuable.  Seats are like renovated row-houses with updated kitchens and ornamental fire-places: coveted by many but allocated to only a lucky few.  Upright in the middle of the car is like the outer burbs, not too bad a spot but you get some [...]