Tag: kiddos
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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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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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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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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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Family Camp Week
So every year for the past four years, and conceivably for all future years, we have attended Family Camp at our church’s camp out in the sticks. I say for all future years because there are people attending this camp who have been doing so nearly all their lives, and they are older than I…
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Girl Scout beach sleepover fun
So yesterday and today marked the Epic Year-End Girl Scout Fun Beach Camp Out With Bridging Ceremony for our girls’ Girl Scout troop. Let me just begin by saying that this is an awesome troop with a fantastic leader and a great bunch of girls. So any comedic value I may draw out in this…
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Ode to Buttsong
Found on the back porch: Buttsong One early morning I heard noise from Debra’s butt. “Debra, you have a buttsong!” “What?!” “There’s no such thing as a buttsong!”she yelled out loudly. So, “Yes there is” I yelled on back, “You just don’t know!” So we spent the whole day arguing, laughing to and fro. Now,…
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We went to Chuck E. Cheese yesterday
With predictable results. Sadly, they didn’t fix the printer until just before the last one.
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