From the category archives:

Tinkstar 2000

Just Call Me ABD’s Mom

by eliz on July 19, 2009

This is how my daughter likes to wear her baseball cap. 
I never suggested she wear it this way, and her father sure never showed her. She obviously saw someone – around town, on TV, who knows – wearing it this way, and she decided it looks cool. Even at 4 years old, she’s fashion savvy [...]

{ 2 comments }

Oh No He Di’INT!

by eliz on June 28, 2009

Tink turned 4 earlier this month and for weeks before, when anyone would ask what she wanted for her birthday, she’d reply, “A skateboard and a yitto compuuuuter.” By “little computer” she meant an iPhone or iPod Touch, since her Grandpa has an iTouch and she played with it quite a bit when we visited [...]

{ 4 comments }

Explaining Michael Jackson

by eliz on June 26, 2009

The images on the TV were so surreal to Tink yesterday that at one point she put her hand on my arm – as if frightened, because she was – and asked, “Why does he look like that?”
“Because he was really sad,” I told her. “And really sick.”
How can you explain Michael Jackson to a [...]

{ 1 comment }