mommy see mommy do

Above, Hamish and Stella hard at work keeping up with the times and emulating Mommy, who's been writing more than usual lately. Hamish's favorite these days is an arcade-style Wow! Wow! Wubzy! game, and I gotta admit, he's pretty good, and so is the game. He'd get more practice if Mommy weren't always hogging the computer. Tonight he warned me that I was wasting the battery by leaving the thing open on my desk. "But it's plugged in!" I protested, wondering how in such a short span of time we'd switched places. "The phone's ringing," he said in response, as if to say, get it together, woman. And I did. It was Bryan.

I'm conflicted about the video game/computer issue. While I think it's important for the kids to learn their way around a computer, I also think it's important for them to go outside once in a while, and play with a... with a... what's the thing called again? Oh yeah. A ball.

Until that day, the little zombies bask in the soft blue glow.

They would have amused themselves until the sun came up if I didn't rudely interrupt them and make them—gasp—eat dinner.