This Friday, Unbeknownst To City Life……

Things that make you go AAAWWWW – from Huffingtonpost.com

1) Coyote puppy saved from deadly cactus as mum looks on. In the “before” pic you can hardly tell what four-legged animal it is. Two golf workers pulled deeply embedded cactus spines out of the puppy’s face with pliers while his mum hovered nearby. No one gets bitten. I know it looks like a dog, but it’s really not a dog. Did I mention no one gets bitten? It’s a highly caffeinated way of saying in my best idealistic voice that a halfway intelligent animal might recognize kindness. That animals don’t bite unless they have no choice.

And then they had to go and evolve into humans.

2) Reddit helps relocate lost pets after Oklahoma storm.

3) Best Parenting Tweets. For e.g.:

“MOM I SEE YOU’RE ON THE PHONE SO I PUT ON MY PLASTIC ROLLERSKATES AND FOUND THE HARMONICA.” – Every preschooler in the world

If I were active on Twitter, Little Miss’ would be:

“MUMMEE I SEE YOU’RE ON THE PHONE SO I ATE A LEAF.” 

“Don’t worry, I cleaned my hands first”

(I know, I owe you guys a look at Pinterest, some Youtubes – took some, but not yet uploaded – hopefully I’ll have more time as I wind down the breast milk pumping. Because I am on antibiotics this morning for an infection so it’s kind of like NOW’S YOUR CHANCE, Aileen – here’s that justification to kill your milk supply!! Boy, I’m taking it. May not have another Get Out Of Guilt Trip Jail Free card again for awhile. This is when the Not Giving Up On Things Anal comes and bites me in the behind. Thank you God, for an infection. It’s not even contagious, how lucky can you get?)

4) Cute Kid Notes. Never gets old. This is why Bill Cosby had such a field day on Kids Say The Darnedest Things (or whatever it was they called that, what happened to that show, anyway?)

Now, I wonder where he learned the word?

Unfortunately for his dad we probably know where the son learnt this one

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5) Facebook becoming social burden for teens. I agree. Ever since that neighbor who told me his 16 year old son won’t accept his friend invitation (“It’s just not cool, Dad”) and that cabbie who described hauling his 14 year old daughter off a deserted beach she ran away from home and camped out on after locating her via her friends’ Facebook feeds.

Social media is just so hard to parent around. Couple weeks ago another dad told us they killed all late night electronics leading up to the SATs, fueling such ‘tude that father and son duked it out in their basement kickboxing gym. True story ok. Quite cool right? Someday maybe Little Miss is kicking my butt for taking her cellphone or not letting her go to a boy’s house <bliss> (for real though, I’m starting with basic light weights again).

And I would metaphorically kill for a course on how to parent around social media. Anyone? Pretty please!!

Well I like charts and tables. At least I know which one I need to get up to speed on…

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6) Oops, picture-lite. So here’s Cat Beard Craze Takes Internet By Storm.

Like so…

In fact, why do you even need the cat?

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7) And so it’s time for me to try and top that. No promises…….

But high above the City That Never Sleeps, unbeknownst to its citizens, Robin looks over from her spoon at Batman and frowns…..

“What are you DOING with my chew toys, Ko ko?”

Have a good one, dears…