A family 2E funny
For CC families of one or two, rather than buying a whole turkey, the list asks you for a turkey breast. Turkey breast is $1.49 a pound, and turkey is $.69 a pound, plus a turkey breast is only light…
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Monthly Archive: November 2007
A fly has hatched
A fly got into our house. It’s been cold lately, so I’ve no idea where this fly came from, whether it spontaneously generated inside the house or came from outside. It’s huge and slow-flying and annoying. My first reaction was,…
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Pity Family 2E…
It’s a terrible time of year: Thanksgiving Food Basket time. My church is associated with a food pantry I’ll call CC. Every week, the Kiddos and I pick something for the CC collection bin: coffee, soup, cereal…whatever they’re asking for….
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Don’t vote for him– he eats little puppies!
Because of the primaries, we’ve received a lot of polling phone calls to find out how we intend to vote. I’m pretty sure it’s not my duty as an American to answer them, but depending on my mood, I might….
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The problem with Christmas carols
Continuing with my complaints about Christmas, I have a real problem with Christmas carols You’re going to ask, “Why, Jane?” In the past we would start hearing them at Thanksgiving. Some radio stations began a non-stop Christmas music program at…
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Kiddo#1 solves a mystery
Kiddo#1 got duped by an urban legend. To whit, that if you find a Tootsie Pop with a star on the wrapper, you can turn it in to get a free box of Tootsie Pops. He found such a wrapper….
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And so it starts
Sunday night I looked out the window and saw, up the hill, that one of our neighbors had Christmas lights already. It was the 11th of November. In past years on my block, several neighbors got into the decorating thing…
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overthinking “The Little Mermaid”
On Saturday, Kiddo#2 asked if we could have a “movie night,” which is one of our family traditions: I make pizzas and we eat in front of the TV on a picnic blanket and watch a movie. We chose “The…
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tragedy of the day for Monday
Generic Rice Crispies don’t sing. Do you think the lawyers got involved? “Some kid might get hurt if a Rice Crispie snaps, crackles or pops too violently. Parents would sue. Do something about this.” And yet another fun part of…
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The “seven angels” part of the title
So you’re wondering where the “seven angels” come in, since I’ve already mentioned the kiddos and the Patient Husband. There’s a bit of a double meaning here. The first meaning is the one I’ll talk about today, and that is…
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