Author: marylowd

I dreamed that Heidi came home, her fur faded from age — she looked like the pictures of her on the telephone poles, faded from rain.

It’s very sad to play an ocarina and not summon a golden-eyed, ghost-faced, calico cat.

* fliers
* tape
* staples (once you’ve upgraded from packing tape to a brand new staple gun)
* energy (for asking strangers if they’ve seen the cat and then talking with them about how you miss her)
* breath (for playing the ocarina she loves) Continue reading “Things you can run out of while looking for your missing cat:”

‘Tickle One,’ noun, synonym for ‘cat’ in Wesley-speak. Usage: “That’s a tickle one!” (best said while pointing at a cat)

The two-year-old has been walking around with a backpack all day. I asked him what was in it, so he proudly unpacked: plastic food, the book eight-year-old’s been reading, a plate, and the TV/DVD remotes.

No school day = I come downstairs to find paper taped everywhere with instructions for a treasure hunt and brown sugar all over the kitchen.

Interestingly, the brown sugar is not directly related to the treasure! The brown sugar was for the kid’s oatmeal. The treasure hunt is an early birthday present for Daniel. So, unless the early birthday present is also a bowl of oatmeal, I don’t think they’re connected at all.

With an e-reader, the baby can’t pull my bookmark out.  But he can flip to a random page and change the text to a really tiny, weird font.

“There’s someone I’d like you to meet–” Elaine holds her empty, cupped hands toward me. “My imaginary kitten, Snowy!”