2.4.10
Let me preface this with saying my five-year-old daughter adores my husband, and he does her. She and her Dad have already developed a great and humorous dynamic between the two of them. Case in point, this series of post-it messages she left us this past week, in the order ...
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1.18.10
How you know your lazy gene lives on, even in your always helpful kindergartener:
My 5-year-old daughter, after a noodle dropped to the floor from the pasta we were making:
"Leave it. That can be for the mouse."
I looked at her, puzzled.
"Um, what mouse?" I asked.
"Well, I KNOW we don't have a ...
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12.22.09
It was not our first standoff, and I don't think it will be our last. My little red-headed darling with the mind of her own and a fiercely huge stubborn streak given to her by both her father and me. We asked for it really.
But, I have grown so tired ...
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11.5.09
For one night, the stress went away. My kids dressed in their chosen holiday attire and joined with their cousin who had come on a special visit just for Trick-or-Treating from several hours away.
This is my tribute to their Halloween efforts:
Dear oldest one,
You had the best costume of the night, ...
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10.29.09
We have only reached kindergarten with my daughter, and I can already tell that I really have it in for me parenting this little peach. She's got the temperament of a saint most days, is the family peacemaker, and genuinely a happy-go-lucky kind of gal. I thoroughly enjoy her company ...
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10.23.09
Today was my first day reading to my daughter's kindergarten class. I was anxious and excited to read to them. I have read every year at least 2-3 times a year to my son's class and I know it is a great way to get to know his classmates. Besides, ...
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9.3.09
All summer long, a weird spell has fallen over my five-year-old. It's been hard to explain. My little red-headed fire-cracker girl who throws her hands up and screams "GO FASTER, DADDY" when my husband burns out in his Mustang, suddenly was frozen in fear unable to progress--seeming much younger than ...
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8.26.09
It might sound odd to admit, especially considering I've been a SAHM/work-out-of-the-homer for a decade now. But, I have had just about a decade of full-on identity confusion. And, I think I am starting to figure out why.
"I really just don't know what I'm going to do when little Timmy ...
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8.25.09
When last I reviewed Daniel X (on my old blog), our hero Daniel had just defeated several diabolical and rather nasty aliens on his most wanted alien list. The first book by James Patterson got high reviews from yours truly because, while the action-packed story is a little intense, I loved ...
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8.22.09
I wrote this post days before my son had an unexpected emergency appendectomy. As I sat watching him sleep in the hospital after his surgery, I felt these words ringing in my heart all over again--along with a sense of awe at this young man I saw before me who ...
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This is SOOOO not another "mommy blog." Ok, well maybe it is. But, what else would you expect from a career writer, who has lived the life of a SAHM and now is juggling her way back into part-time work again while raising two wild kids with her wise-cracking husband and a large stinky labrador retriever? In short, I'm a walking cliche--a suburban mommy blogger just trying to keep my crazy yet wonderful life in balance and learning to look at the world through funny glasses with my tongue sticking out. Pfffftttt!
