*giggles*

Browsing amazon reviews. I shouldn't.

Here's a woman who comments about a picture book that "I wish my 4th grade geography teacher would have used that one". It's not standard, but I do aim to be descriptive and not prescriptive, I really do.

What's funny about this is that not two reviews earlier she said this about another picture book on the Nativity: I love the idea of this book but it was not edited properly. "These are the shepherds watching by night that saw the star in the sky (should be who saw the star...)" " This is the child that (should be who) was born."

She counts this as a major flaw, along with the use of the word "ass" (which I assume refers to the animal...?), and rates the book as only two stars.

And yet, in my internal ranking of grammatical "errors" I would call replacing "who" with "that" far less significant than replacing "wish she had" with "wish she would have"! But I wouldn't rate a book down for this one way or another. I just think it's funny.

(Also? Another reviewer? I appreciate that you never ever ever ever ever want your child to hear the word "ain't". Got it. But it's not necessary to give a one star review on a book for that, particularly when the book's title includes the word "ain't". We can all see it, and if that's our criteria for judging picture books we really can figure it out without your condescending "help", thank you very much!)

I see the moon and the moon sees me

The moon sees someone that I can't see.
Please let the light that shines on me
Shine on the ones I love.

Gorgeous full moon, like an Easter egg over the bridge. I ran back upstairs to call the girls to their mom's window to see it.

Oh, and happy Passover everybody :)

Today, obviously, is the first day of Passover.

It is also the first day of Ana's vacation, and it was BEAUTIFUL out, so we headed straight out to the playground. Ana was in a grumpy mood ALL day, but she did make an effort to pull herself together and behave despite that, and I'm really proud of her. It's hard, and she's just little still. (Apparently she had a bad dream last night about somebody breaking into our house. She mentioned at dinner that she keeps thinking of it, which might explain her dream. I had the same theme in my dream, and they're probably both triggered by the fact that one of our neighbors *did* have her house broken into a week ago!)

( Going into the city )

( The playground! )

So yeah, that was our day. On the way home my knee crapped out on me, which was weird. My ankle does that often enough, and I should get that checked, but my knee? Held it together enough to get groceries to make pasta, salad, and green beans for dinner. Mmm. Stuck the tomato paste in the freezer - if it keeps, I'll make chili next week.