Not much to say here today. Just a few bullet points, I guess.
-We go to sign M up for kindergarten on Wednesday. Please, oh, PLEASE let us win a lottery spot that guarantees a slot in one of the all-day classes. That girl NEEDS to be in school all day. *I* need her to be in school all day. Odds are 2/3 she will get all-day kindergarten. And it goes without saying that I can not believe my tiny baby is going to be a kindergartener already.
-L has finally hit a bit of a language explosion. She has had lots and lots of mostly unintelligible-to-other-people words since early fall, but only began putting together two word phrases in the last two weeks. I know I shouldn’t be worried, but part of me has been a little concerned that she isn’t talking in more complex sentences. Finally, there was a big jump and her articulation is improving significantly, so I can relax a little. I still think I might have her reevaluated by early intervention when she turns two, just to put my mind at ease.
-Thanks to the glorious Figlet and her recommendation of the super-effective grout cleaner from Home Depot, I spent part of today scrubbing my kitchen floor’s grout. Remember when certain people thought my house wasn’t dirty enough way back when? Well, let me assure you, if there is any question that we in the AmFam household are filthy, dirty people, it was 100% confirmed today when I started working on that grout. I think I have only cleaned it once since we moved into this house 3.5 years ago. That grout cleaner worked like magic though.
-It is possible that we may get a tiny hint of spring weather here tomorrow. God, I can not WAIT for spring.
-In case you were curious, an explanation of why chinese women don’t use tam’pons .
Can you please email me the name of the grout cleaner, my mom is going on vaca next week and I would love to clean her grout for her as a surprise!!!
It is called Tile and Grout Magic.
Re: “why Chinese women don’t use tampons” – Huh?! This is how stupid myths start. Many, many women in China use tampons, they’re universally available, in cities at least. Just OB has a monopoly. But there are loads of product categories where one or two players with early entry advantage totally dominate the market.
It’s embarassing that tripe like that get published. Great research – ONE store in the entire country doesn’t have them, so none have them. Sigh.
It was 50 degrees here yesterday. It was lovely. truly lovely. Now, of course, it is rainy and the bottom has dropped out on the temperature. Well, it was nice while it lasted.
Not sure about the scientific validity of it, but that tampon thing was really fascinating… I thought about it, and I didn’t start using them until much later, probably in my early-to-mid 20s, but my mother didn’t use them so that’s probably why.
Yes, fascinating that tampon thing, thanks for linking!