Avast ye hearty mateys! Talk like a Pirate day be upon us again! May your rum be strong, your wenches be scurvy-free, and your enemies be caught down wind!
Fresh Food – A Season in Pictures, Part II – Vegetables
Well, you can’t always eat healthy. In her defense, we just handed her something covered in chocolate. Who could blame her for getting a little over-zealous?
Part I is here.
Fresh Food – A Season in Pictures, Part I – Fruit
Holy Pant Size!
You know how sometimes you try on a pair of pants that is your size and it is either teeny tiny, or huge? And we just say, “Well, sizes vary a bit between companies.” Well, they vary more than just a little bit!
This chart really blew my mind. The good news is, you can pretend you have a 36 inch waist. The bad news is, not one of the companies actually measured 36 inches. So, whatever size pants you think you have, you’re probably wrong. ESPECIALLY if you shop at Old Navy. Yikes!
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It is especially disappointing to think of the scenarios this implies. Remember how excited you were to fit into a smaller size for the first time in a long time? Maybe you didn’t lose any weight, maybe the pants just got bigger. Or, if you’ve managed to stay in the same pant size for years, maybe you have actually been slowly getting bigger and just didn’t realize.
These days, you just can’t get away from inflation.
Link via John.
1st day of school
Yesterday, Evie had her first day of preschool.
Everything was sort of disastrous. First off, it so happened that Sara and I both had dentist appointments scheduled for that day. We spoke to the dentist and I rescheduled my appointment and they promised to hurry Sara’s. However, because Sara had this appointment, she ended up having to leave this morning before everything was ready, meaning I had a lot of running around to do, and she didn’t get to take pictures like she wanted.
Finally, we got out the door and met Sara at the school on time. However, something was wrong, nobody else seemed to be there. It was a ghost town. I went inside to check, and it turns out that the first day (which is only an hour to sort of get her used to it) started at 10 instead of the regular 9. So we were an hour early! So much for all our hurrying. I could have gone to my dentist appointment.
So it was sort of anti-climactic because I had to leave for work, and Sara had to go kill some time. Evie was disappointed too, because she was excited to go to school and didn’t want to be told it wasn’t time yet. It was like we were building up for this big moment and then…nothing. Oh well.
It sounds like Evie took everything pretty well. She insisted that she wasn’t going to play with anything because she, “didn’t want to help pick anything up”. But when she saw the duplos, she just couldn’t help herself. So she ended up having a pretty good time.
This sending your kids to school thing is sort of a head trip. Obviously there are all the feelings about how your kid is growing up so fast, etc. But there’s more to it than that. When you’re old enough for preschool, your life starts happening. I met the best man from my wedding in preschool. I have memories of preschool.
It reminds me of a Louis CK bit I heard one time about how now that his daughter is in preschool, there are no do overs anymore because now she will remember things, the way he remembers things about preschool (EDIT: you can hear the bit here, from minute 3:00 to 3:32). As he says, they press record at age 5, nothing you do before that matters. You could punch her in the face before that and it doesn’t matter because they’re going to wipe the hard drive.
Not that I’m considering punching her in the face. I just mean that any mistakes I make now she could remember for the rest of her life. That’s heavy stuff! No more do-overs!
Shane Halbach 