neighborhood freaks

There are not a lot of families like us on the block.

For starters, none of our neighbors have 10 year old boys running around in their bathing suits wearing eyeliner and blush. None of the boys on the block have seven year-old sisters who think nothing of going to Target to help their brother pick out the right shade of lipstick - one that won't make him look too "girly."

But what makes us most unusual of all, is not that we survive tech week anyway we can, it is that most of our neighbors would even consider letting their kids play on the rolla-bolla of death - more commonly referred to as a slip and slide. And certainly none of the neighbors children are doing so wearing Cover Girls' mystic plum.