Channeling Larry King

Why don't they make Stain Defender children's clothes? Seems Oshkosh, Garanimals, or Carter's could afford such technology. Probably has to do with chemical sensitivities.

We had Mass for our 8th grade candidates tonight. One dad asked afterward if he could have received Communion, even though he had received earlier at a funeral. (I told him yes, because it was two different reasons for being at Mass.)
His daughter was in pajamas.

I had a student tell me his mom, worried about the graphic violence, wanted to prescreen The Passion of the Christ before he saw it. She didn't have those same concerns about Saw II.

We told Dale that he had to use the potty in order to go to preschool like big sister. We've discovered he has the same steel-trap memory as his sister, because he's calling us on it. He still is unclear in speech to most people (and even to me sometimes), so sending him off to preschool (or any drop-off situation) isn't a valid option. Any suggestions for activities an almost-3, newly-potty-trained boy can do with a parent that don't really involve a tremendous layout of cash?

I have an entry about my renewed love affair with Anne Rice's work, but you'll have to wait a bit more for that.