Father and son rescued at sea

MOM-NOS links to the video. The son’s autistic, you see. And a Toy Story fan.

Impossible not to cry watching Christopher’s arm pump the air at “To infinity… And BEYOND!”

the button and the button creator

I got the button at http://tools.blogflux.com/buttonmaker/ with the following specifics:

left block: text mccain color #003366 background #FFFFFF
right block: text palin color #FFFFFF background #003366
button options: border color #cc9900 background #FFFFFF.

retail therapy

I guess it’s not really therapeutic if you need it. And it’s on super sale. But aaaanyway. I bought shoes for the boys for winter from oldnavy.com – they have some good deals if you’re not picky about specific style. Gilbert got some dragon hightops and Bede got wavy pull-ons. Now they need socks, which I confess confuse the hell out of me with their sizing. So I didn’t order any yet.

And Bede needs a coat, but I think everyone else can get by on last year or handmedowns. In theory Bede could wear a handmedown but the only ones for his size are silver and lilac or pink. And he doesn’t care, but Lord knows he gets enough looks without also getting the hairy eyeball for wearing a feminine colored coat. Boy needs a boy coat, you know? (Anything I can do to painlessly unweird Bede I do. If he insisted on the pink or silver-purple coat that’d be one thing.)

And now Faith needs the computer back!