http://www.mscrochety.com Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:23:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Dreamt I was teaching Word headers and Footers to a group of English-speaking German students. http://www.mscrochety.com/2008/11/for-realz/ http://www.mscrochety.com/2008/11/hes-ours/ Just one of the reasons...today Julia's library teacher recited the witches' potion spell from "Macbeth" to her; she loves it.  We looked up the words and recited it ourselves after dinner. http://www.mscrochety.com/2008/10/why-ps-321-rocks/ Julia insisted on putting this Obama button on her school backpack. http://www.mscrochety.com/2008/10/first-grade-politics/ As I was leaving my apartment today, I saw a guy with his dog trying to put a bag of dog turds into our paper recycling bin.  The bin has two paper recycling stickers on it, it couldn't have been more obvious.  I said, "That's paper recycling" as he was ... http://www.mscrochety.com/2008/09/idiot-with-dog/ My summer crochet project was this blanket for Annette's son's baby, named Shanon. I think I've finally learned my lesson about starting a project with yarn leftovers, without making a gauge or any attempt at figuring out how much yarn I actually need. But it turned out lovely ... http://www.mscrochety.com/2008/09/finished-the-blanket/ Last Saturday night I gathered with a few friends from Debevoise to remember Bran Jerome Marah, who died two years ago in early August. We spent much of the time talking about Debevoise, and other things like hippies juggling fire, but did raise our glasses to his ... http://www.mscrochety.com/2008/08/remembering-jerome/ This happened awhile ago, but I was waiting and waiting for Dad to post the toothless pictures.  It came out during lunch at camp, and she either swallowed it or it got lost.  Together we wrote the tooth fairy a note that had about 5 "sorrys" in it, for not ... http://www.mscrochety.com/2008/08/my-big-girl-lost-a-tooth/ "Crocs are one of the signs of the Apocalypse." Clinton Kelly from What Not to Wear http://www.mscrochety.com/2008/07/quote-of-the-day/ My daughter's life is an opera. On many days she sings 25-50 percent of her words, rather than speaking them. A few nights ago I was waiting to play with her using Chris' RC cars, and she was in the bathroom. She was singing away, and probably ... http://www.mscrochety.com/2008/07/night-at-the-opera/