My list

• gym bag for Martial arts gear
• Lidda Bit Sweets cookbook
• new doormats for the inside upstairs doors (beautiful, will stay put and not kick all over the house)
• mesh bags for washing sweaters
• a large new bright lamp for our living room (Arren, we've had a great time with the lamp you gave us, but it has seen better days. Especially since I broke one of the bulb settings when I was trying to tighten a bulb!)
• the Good Wife on DVD (because Hulu commercials are really annoying)

Spit-up covered boots

Hooray that
1) They wash off easily and
2) We have a baby to spit up on them!

Becca's emergency plan

"If there's something dangerous, like a war or a bomb, I'm going to go to France."

Santa Sightings?

R: "I want to see Santa again!"
A: "Santa isn't real."
R: "Yes he is!"
A: "No, he isn't. Mommy and Daddy are Santa."
R: "No, they aren't. He was at the school!"
A: "That wasn't the real Santa, and we have proof!"
K: "What proof?"
A: "He had black hair sticking out, and Santa has white hair. And his beard was attached to his hat. And Allen saw he had his tummy tucked into his coat. I mean, a pillow."

So when your older child is telling your younger child that Santa isn't real, should you defend truth or childhood fantasy?

What I found on the couch at 10:20 pm

An 8-year-old boy reading MAD SCIENCE. When asked why he wasn't in bed, he said "I haven't said my prayer yet!"