AMAZING

How a five-year-old girl can pick out random items of clothing from her closet, put them on, and it looks adorable.

YOU BETCHA

Hooray for insanely cold weather. Bring it on, straight through April - because when it's freakin' cold out, Noodle and Beast drop their arguments with Mommy and Daddy over what to wear, and right quick they do. I get them hustled out the door right on time and looking like a couple of Fargo extras; Noodle has even taken to talking like a little Marge Gunderson on mornings like this: "It's cold, oh yah, Daddy..."

Spent a moment wondering what'll happen if she tells her kindergarten teacher "prowler needs a jump, hon."

And here we are, and it's a beautiful day.

THE SCARIER SIDE OF SEARS

Boot-quaking time. It's the 1973 fall and winter catalogue. Terrifying pictures of what your parents attempted to wear follow.