Month: October 2011
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True Story
So this evening The Lovely Rhonda, having brushed her teeth and made ready for a good night’s sleep, entered the boudoir (that’s fancy for grown-up bedroom) and stifled a girlish scream. “THERE’S A FROG IN HERE.” Naturally, because I am that kind of dork, I jumped up and ran to see. Sure enough, there was…
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If you give a kid a cardboard box
(With apologies to Laura Numeroff) If you have an Expensive Kitchen Gadgetry Party, you will give your grown-up guests alcoholic beverages. If you give your grown-up guests alcoholic beverages, they will order some gadgetry. If your guests order some gadgetry, the Expensive Kitchen Gadgetry company will charge them each individually for shipping, yet deliver their…
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Stepparenting for dummies
So tonight The Lovely Rhonda is off being awesome at some work thing, and that makes me the lonely hausfrau. The smallest child sustained an exacerbation to a minor knee injury and there were floods of tears, such that after I sat by her bed reading to her there was a damp spot on my…
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Geide to Camping
So my mother took Delia camping for a week or so in August. They had just gotten a nice new trailer. Mom sent me a piece of mail today, and in it was a small document constructed of two sticky notes stapled together. Geide to Camping, reads the cover. Inside: Tip: (Donte go potty until…
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Cookemon
So tonight I decided it was time to bake chocolate chip cookies with my 7-year-old. Did you know that 7-year-olds are not, in fact, in possession of the best fine motor skills? Also, they are not the best listeners. This is a fantastic combination when you are dealing with dry ingredients. I am considering suspending…
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The High Life
So Friday morning, as I languished around the house recovering from a long night of digestive issues (yes, I know you’re both tired of hearing about my digestion, just be thankful I don’t go into detail) I noticed that one of the cats had some extra junk in his trunk. Great. So I retrieved the…
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Yes, I’m a girl
So a friend of mine reposted this… thing on Facebook. I’m having a little trouble with it. “Yes, I’m a girl. I push doors that clearly say PULL. I laugh harder when I try to explain why I’m laughing. I walk into a room and forget why I was there. I count on my fingers…
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Entertainment
So tomorrow night we’re going to see The Blue Man Group. Since we kind of got jacked out of an actual restful vacation of any kind, we comforted ourselves with inexpensive season tickets to a bunch of Broadway shows, and this week it’s some guys in blue rubber outfits doing strange things onstage for money.…
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It’s Picture Time!
So today my kid brought home her school photo. This year we didn’t have any prints made, just had them burn it to a CD. We can get prints made anywhere. So here ’tis: She looks sort of like she needs a haircut or something, but she doesn’t. Let’s just say that I wasn’t the…
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Miller Time
So our friend had the baby. C-section, went well, baby lovely, mom recovering. Daddy Man arrived a couple of hours ago and I’m sure that baby has him wrapped around her perfect tiny little finger already. Barbie’s entire wardrobe exploded into our living room earlier today, and there was much resentment among the small fry…
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