Now This I Gotta Buy

Molly and Kelly are both promised dogs - or the pet of their choice - on their ninth birthday. Never have I so much wished for a family dog as now, just so we could have the pooch wear this.

For more elitist merchandise, go here.

Dora the Explorer

If you ever doubted the many fine points of Dora the Explorer, read this review.

Happy Mothers Day

I love this site, but until now I never had anything worthy of submission. I hope they post it!

Happy Mother's Day everyone!

When is MY book deal coming?

The latest blog that is becoming a book:

Postcards from Yo Momma.

...which I admit, is actually pretty funny. As is Stuff White People Like and of course the blog-father of all blog book deals, PostSecret.

But just because I can admit these blogs are good, doesn't mean I don't want MY book deal too!

Update: Just read about this site: Young Me/Now Me. It is so book deal bound too.

"No more quarter hunts!"

This was my daughter Molly's response when I told her about our apartment building's gleaming new laundry room, that unlike the old one that had coin-operated machines, takes a re-fillable cash card and means we will no longer need to procure one-million-trillion quarters every time we want to do the laundry. For us, finding the requisite quantity of quarters required for even the most humble amount of laundry meant hunting around the apartment for hours in the vain hope that a stray quarter might be stowed here or there, in a random drawer, an overfilled dish or forgotten corner of the floor. This was inevitably followed by raiding the piggy bank, the tzedakah box, and on one particularly bad day, even the state quarter map.

Farewell, quarter hunts. I will miss you.

And just like that, another relic of childhood... gone forever.

Taking a Good Idea too Far

Is it just me, or is there something just not right about this:
http://www.personalizedcause.com/index.html

Lower East Side: First stop, not quite a total success.

So, we went to visit my brother, Ethan - also known as l.e.s.ter on the Lower East Side. However, it was at best a partial success because:

1. I forgot the camera to commemorate the event, and
2. I forgot we needed to have Molly and Kelly, and Kelly didn't even come on the trip.

Still, it was a good trial run for our first "real" trip we'll take one day soon.