Julian's Mom

That makes me think of a character from Weeds who stole casino chips and said she knew someone who would give her fifty cents on the dollar. Of course, that's fiction, so what do I know?

No squinting?! Oh you and your connections and morals and sh*t.

I think G was having an initial "reject him before he can reject me" reaction and given her little history and all that has gone down, it makes perfect sense and is perfectly normal. What counts is that the rejection never happened. All kids need that...especially yours.

Really? No squinting?

I love Willie Nelson.

I have a popcorn popper and a food processor that you would be welcome to (I just make "ghetto popcorn" on the stove). Too bad the cost of shipping it would far exceed their actual worth.

It's none of my business....but....instead of the nothing for them, nothing for you deal, could you maybe instead start a tradition of giving your time? Like taking your grandson for an afternoon or taking your children out for dinner in the new year?I understand the aversion to shopping (in theory, anyway, since I enjoy shopping, especially for other people)but everyone likes being acknowledged.

I did better than I thought I would.Nothing like surprising myself in the middle of the week to cheer a gal up.

What a beautiful post.It put me in mind of grandmother, whose Christmas traditions were a lot like yours. She told us that they always received a doll as their only gifts on Christmas morning and that by Christmas afternoon, they were broken, the faces being made of porcelain and they were back to using their pillows as dollies. They decorated a chair because they didn't have a tree and one year a cousin of theirs ate the skin off of the orange.

I should have saved this comment for my own blog but this post got me missing my grandma.

Enjoy your holidays, enjoy your son and enjoy your sushi!And enjoy that amazing girlfriend of yours as much as possible in the middle.

But do the people in houses all go to the university where they were put in boxes and they came out all the same?

I live close to a military base and I get that panicky feeling whenever I drive onto it, looking for a house for the same reason.

I like your house, though.

Good thing I can't listen to music on the interslice...I would cry.

Maybe you could use some of my fleece blankets, after all!I hope that the weather behaves by the time your visit rolls around.

You and I live such different lives, Martin and I think that's why I enjoy your blog posts so much. I can't enjoy the things that you enjoy at this point in my life so I feel very fortunate to be able to read your accounts of them.

I was thinking these would be good for my Mom, who is a big fan of lemon, but she is allergic to chocolate. Not sure how she feels about gingerbread...maybe I'll give them a go.

My Grandma always called them "Mexican Mice". Not sure why or what the difference is between Mexican mice and regular mice.All that mattered was that they were tasty.Thanks for the tip about the scoop...I hate waiting for things to chill.

Really big and normal. I didn't have to squint. It was just fine.

I at the single dad part...I have complained MANY times about the same thing. They're not single dads...they're part time dads.

I have been having that gnawing feeling off and on for a few days now...usually means something is coming down the pipes. The trick is trying to figure out if it's good or bad.

I had heard of this particular fetish several times before...it's usually not sexual. A book called, simply, "The Babies" was published about it. Too bad this guy wasn't associated with that community...plenty of "adult nannies" will do all of that without the pretending to have a special need. And wasn't there a CSI episode with an adult baby in it a few years back?