Friends, this weekend, a very exciting thing will happen:  I will participate in my first Tae Kwon ... excited to get in the ring with some people outside of my own club.  I am competing in both point ... to challenge myself to improve my pattern (a beginner's pattern called Dan Gun for those who care) but sparring...ah, sparring is my true love.  We'll see if I can still claim that after Saturday.  I...

.  My mom says "That boy is a good Mexican" about his fascination with running water.  I don't know ... get to putter to my heart's content...

This weekend, M'hijo really started moving in earnest.  Before, he could move across a room, sure, if you gave him half an hour to do it.  But on Saturday morning, he saw something he wanted on the other side of the living room, and was there in about fifteen seconds.  He doesn't crawl exactly, but instead uses a foot and two arms to push himself along.  The other leg stays folded underneath him...

... the border without papers, unless we did as Sahsez suggested and hid him in the wheel well. My ... onto the strong, broad shoulders of my husband,  who, as luck would have it, works just a block from ... are now paying for my renegade attitude back in February when I decided not to order a birth...

Sahsez started grade two today.  Unlike last year, when she happily submitted to being photographed by Mummy and insisted on me being near her on the way to school and for a little while in her new classroom, this year she ran way ahead of me to catch up with ...

... was a chore.  I felt like a stranger in my own kitchen.  Which really hammers home the fact that I have ... that's hindered my enthusiasm is the season.  It sounds blasphemous to say it, but I'm really over summer ... , because Tobias' cherry tomatoes are still coming on strong and I have to eat my fair share (about ... butter! Mmmm!"  So you see my tastebuds are really ready for some colder temperatures...

... always torn between my desire to let her express herself creatively and my desire to not spend all my ... school taking the hit messwise I figured both of my wishes would be granted.  And it worked out...

... this video exactly recreates what's going on at my porch feeder...

... that M'hijo will not make us regret the day he was born by being a bad traveler.  My queendom...

-minuters, giving me a chance to catch my breath!  On top of not wanting to sleep, he didn't want to eat ... tenuous my sanity is.  I ain't no superwoman.  Housewife extraordinaire, yes, but superwoman, no.  I ... yesterday.  I might even manage to finish my morning pages , which I left off 2/3 of the way through...