So, I have a question.

I saw a spider in the garden the other day, and I like spiders, but this one had an hourglass so we squished it because nobody likes critters smaller than they are that can kill them, right?

But now I'm googling "black widow spider" and all the images I see have red hourglasses. Can black widows have white hourglasses on their backs? I worry that I got my mother to kill an innocent arachnid!

Evangeline just woke up.

The other day she was very cranky, so I gave her her nap late - like, at 4:50 PM! Her sister was very upset that I woke her up at 6. "She hasn't napped long enough! She'll be cranky!" and was very solicitous of her for the rest of the evening - cleaning up for her, that sort of thing, and glaring reproachfully at me if I said anything even remotely stern or strict to Evangeline. "Connie, you know she's just cranky because she hasn't had enough of a nap. You shouldn't've woken her!" Well, an hour long nap isn't very long, but it was that or let her be up all night, Ana...!

Evangeline is so cute lately. She talks about her "invibbible" friend, and about how there are no e-yephants/wermaids/p'incesses/d'agons in "this yand". Where does she even pick that up, in this land?

Oh god. Evangeline is having a time-out.

She wanted to fingerpaint, so I set that up. First it's "No, I want to really use brushes" (tough luck, I don't know where they are at the moment), then it's "I can't do it myself" and then (when I'm done helping her) it's "I don't want to do it myself/clean up" and then it's "If you put me in time-out for neither painting nor cleaning up, I'll go to my ROOM instead" and then it's my personal favorite "I'm not ever going in time-out".

Word to the wise: If you're three? Don't say that. Connie is bigger than you. Up, down, hey - you're in time-out!

She's in time-out until she figures out what she's doing with the paint and paper on the floor, either using it or dumping it, her choice.

Leaving in 2 minutes to pick up Ana (half day)

Just renewing our library books online and...

http://www.booksalefinder.com/NYC.html

OMG OMG OMG OMG!

I'll NEVER have money again! Isn't it AWESOME????