The Master Fairy God-Jarvey's Office

The Earth Spirit caused a bit of a stir (and not a few requests for photographs) at the park Pumpkin Patch...

Favorite reaction to this costume: the woman who jumped about a foot and exclaimed, "Holy Mac and Cheese!"

Closest to guessing what it was: the little boy who whispered, "I think it might be a scary God."

Most common reaction: "What IS that?/OMG, that's scary!"

Silliest reaction: "Is it real???!" (Oy, teenagers...)

Best Interaction: The woman who, upon discovering that the Earth Spirit only communicated in gestures, asked if he would like a piece of candy--in sign language. :)

Mommy: I do wish Craig Ferguson's show was on earlier. He seems very funny.

Firstborn: Who's he?

Mommy!Draco: He has a talk show, and he's Scottish, so he has an accent like Shrek--

Firstborn (interrupting): Oh! He's a Shrek man!

Baby (chanting merrily): Shrek man! Shrek man!

Mommy: No, honey. He's a Scot. The character Shrek just happens to have that kind of accent.

Firstborn (wisely): Oh! I see. The Scots talk like Ogres!

Mommy (trying to hold back laughter): No, no-wait! *laughing* You've got it turned 'round. The man who did the voice of Shrek just happened to use a Scottish accent. Ogres aren't Scots.

Baby: What does that mean?
Firstborn (patiently): It means that Ogres aren't Scots; Scots are Ogres.

*Mommy is still laughing too hard to address the fallacy--almost too hard to type--but wanted to commit it to print before one delicious detail faded from memory.*

Baby: I don't like putting away my clothes!
Me: Well, HARD CHEESE.
Firstborn (clapping): Oh! Say it again, in Mrs. Slocomb's voice!!
Baby (forgetting to be petulant): Yay!
Me (rolls eyes): Well, HAHD CHEESE!
(Firstborn & Baby shriek with laughter & applaud)
Firstborn: Can you go 'Pbbbt!' and do the finger thing, too?
Me: Ah, Lily... that's very rude. You know the one finger here? That's the same thing, but in British.
Firstborn (wide-eyed): Oh, my...

Apparently I'm a bigger mess than I thought...

Jury duty.

I can't handle jury duty today. I just can't.

...

So I'm sending Draco.

Cufflinks and all.

Look out, American Jurisprudence.

Firstborn: Mummy, my head hurts!

*Mummy gets a cold compress*

Baby: Mummy, I have a booboo. And another booboo. And this one here...

*Mummy fetches the hydrogen peroxide, neosporin, & bandaids. Lots of bandaids. And remembers why Baby's nickname is 'Booboo.'

Hubby: I was moving a bookcase at work and this pile of papers fell off and when I reached for them, I got this nasty paper cut. *pause* Could you get the neosporin and the finger bandaids... and, um, fix it?

*Mummy facepalms*

*Mummy gets neosporin & bandaids again*

I really, really don't subscribe to cliches about grown men being childish. And 99.9% of the time, the love of my life helps me out with this.

Welcome to 0.1% night.

I present to you Gretl and Marta: The littlest (and cutest) Von Trapp sisters.

ZOMOGSH, Baby & Firstborn auditioned for The Sound of Music today and they called asking them to come again for another reading tomorrow!!! :0

...like a mess of dragon eggs.



From our families (human and digital) to yours, all the best this holiday.

It will be nice seeing the little booboos unwrap their presents & play with them. After 8 slightly blah Christmases for them, present-wise, this one will be pretty epic.

Other than that, I'm just kind of tired. I'd like one of the old-style Christmas Dragons for Christmas, but I seriously doubt that will happen. Right up there with winning the lotto.



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