So, you know your 5-year-old is a contrarian when she has two fairy dolls, one with purple hair and one with blue hair, and she decides to name the purple-maned one "Blue" and the blue-maned one "Purple."

That's all for now. I rushed home today, leaving a GREAT LLL meeting early, in order to pick up some groceries to make lunch for a playdate. So, of course, the other mama's kids got sick and the playdate was canceled. I promised Teresa and Maddy we'd do something else fun instead, secertly hoping that getting the free balloons on the way out of Trader Joe's would count as the "something else fun" - but alas, it did not. Nor did watching the landscapers cut down the enormous bushes which were obscuring our view out the windows (and possibly leading to more scorpions, which we are anxious to avoid!) So apparently, I have to bake chocolate-chip cookies now. How June Cleaver of me! Well, except for the enormous piles of unfolded laundry blocking the cabinet containing the baking supplies.

I love baking cookies, but doing it with one lovely daughter who thinks she knows everything and does not want to take any direction whatsoever, and another lovely daughter who is the biggest klutz ever (except for me, of course) and manages to get 99% of any egg she cracks OUTSIDE the designated receptacle for said egg, sometimes makes me wish I were sipping espresso and eating someone ELSE'S homemade cookies alone at, say, a Parisian café....but nah, I'd miss the kids too much. :)