smonk you: the best freaking daddy blog ever

Sidewalk chalk. The awesomeness of temporary art. MF loves the stuff... He does his best at drawing fish, sharks, circles and monkeys (they all look the same) and has us supplement his Jackson Pollock-esque doodles with fish and other things... But mostly fish. And it's up for a day or two then gone after a rain... As it should be. But it could be a little disappointing because it's so faint... And so temporary... What if you could hack it and make it better? That's just what we did. It was an accident. We left the  washable sidewalk chalk out during a storm and the box got filled with water... It stayed like that for a few days before we noticed... Then came a nice day and The Kid wanted to play chalk... So play we did (although we really didn't play chalk we used chalk or drew with chalk or such) after I drained the chalk box. The water gave the chalk an awesome consistency... And the color was amazing. The chalk rods (is that what you call them) were s

We all know the story, right. A rabbit (who's a bit like me) doesn't listen to his mother and loses his clothes then get sick... Moral is listen to your mother. But is that really the moral? I think not. Let's walk through it a bit. Peter ran off while Flopsy, Mopsy and Cotton-tail were gathering blackberries. Sure Peter should have stayed with his sisters but have you ever picked blackberries? It's tedious and prickly... No one in their right mind would blame him for ducking out... I should mention here that in the board book we have they don't mention that Peter's dad was in a "accident" that lead to him being baked into a pie by Mr. McGregor... So much has been sanitized these days. I mean calling it an accident back in 1893 was still sanitizing it... You know he was hit by a rake, knocked unconscious,  skinned and then cooked in a stew or perhaps just on a spit over a fire. Anyway when we last left Peter he was running away from a job tha