Friday, June 19, 2009

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Yesterday Caroline proudly announced: "fish are mammals!" to a friend of mine. My friend noted that "fish aren't mammals" to which Caroline replied "but Dolphins and whales are mammals!" Ha ha! We all got a good chuckle out of that one.

Sunday, June 14, 2009

I'm going to try to write a quick post while the kids are busy with crayons. I used to hate crayons with paper on them. Now, I love them. The kids will peel crayons for an hour or so, which generally beats their attention span with other toys.

Isaac has a new habit of telling us he is tired and needs to go to bed. Seriously. He will be at the playground and sit down next to me and insist. "I tired. I need to go to bed." And when this doesn't work, he will again insist "I need a nap." I know he's tired, but his nap time is 1-3pm and if he doesn't nap during the allotted time, he doesn't nap at all. Mean mommy, I know. For a while he used to refuse his nap and then would promptly fall asleep at 4pm, only to then refuse to go to bed until close to 11pm. No more. I've learned. He is napping more regularly these days, which is nice.

Well, chaos has ensued so I must depart this post for now. I will surely add on a bit tonight.

Saturday, June 06, 2009

Today I had the lovely experience of receiving a bill at a restaurant with a "Mandatory Gratuity" of 18%. It was a smallish pizza place near 42nd St and Broadway and the menu made no mention of their mandatory gratuity policy. I would also like to add that the mandatory gratuity was added on AFTER the tax was calculated (9% sales tax+ 18% gratuity). Ridiculous. The service was TERRIBLE. We ordered our food and drinks and received them after a bit of a bit of a wait, which wasn't too long. The server disappeared after dropping off our food, and was only seen again after Todd went to have my glass refilled with water. We did not pay the gratuity (well some of it) because there was no mention of this on the menu and the service was terrible! If they are going to make it mandatory, they need to be explicit about this ahead of time. When I hear that the tip is mandatory, it makes me want to run, because it usually means the service will be lousy.

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