Tag: family
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Interesting times
Friends. I’m in a weird place (metaphorically speaking; I’m physically at home in my filthy little office) and I am also about to leave for Europe on a long-awaited ten day trip to three different cities. Normally when at a crossroads I would not necessarily go on an admittedly expensive (though not lavish) trip but…
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Family Camp
So five years ago The Lovely Rhonda and I decided to drag the children to our church’s camp for a few days of Family Camp. We took only the older two girls as the youngest was barely two years old and we thought summer camp + diapers = misery. We were kind of correct in…
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Many frustrate, such sad
So the past few weeks have been fraught with turmoil. We moved, and that’s good. But stressful. Rhonda’s ex-mother-in-law passed away rather suddenly. She was not someone I knew well, but she was family to Rhonda for many years and was her girls’ grandmother. That was sad, and stressful. A good friend was diagnosed with…
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Sew Happy
So my 9 year old giant kid, Delia, and I visited my mother on Friday. It was a day off of school and I seized the opportunity to drag her down to Mom’s for a sewing lesson. With a surprise. I mentioned to Delia that we were going to Grandma’s for a sewing lesson. “But…
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Room-cleaning day: a comedy in three parts
So The Lovely Rhonda and I give the children an allowance every couple of weeks, allegedly for chores that they do. There are assigned chores (cleaning the catbox, taking out the recycling, etc) and there are “other duties as assigned,” such as filling the cat food dish or picking stuff up in the living room…
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The Grandma from Kalama
Okay, technically she wasn’t from there, but she did live there for a time. Tonight I had occasion to dig out some little odds and ends that I inherited when my grandmother passed away. This happened when my daughter was five months old. She is now 9 and a half years old. It’s really true…
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Horse Camp, or how I nearly lost my left leg (again)
So we have all these female children in our house and they are all girls. Female girls of the girly female persuasion. We made them all sign up for a certain Scouting Organization for Girls of the Female Persuasion, because we can. We’re tyrants like that. Last spring the two older girls went to an…
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Why I Would Not Make a Good Stay-at-Home Mom
So I have pneumonia and am at home. I don’t feel well and I don’t rest well even if I don’t feel well, so I’m a very reluctant stayer-at-homer. Since I am at home attempting to recuperate, The Lovely Rhonda didn’t feel it was worthwhile to engage a sitter as we normally do on Thursdays…
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This thing that happened today
So this evening I took it upon myself to finish the project I started yesterday. Yesterday evening I got a wild hair to clean the minivan, Moby Titanic. It had been a while and the filth level was teetering on the brink of acceptable levels of sloth. It’s one thing to say, “Oh dear, sorry…
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