Seven Angels, Four Kids, One Family
Sometimes sarcasm is the only sane response
He was right there in front of my house, and so beautiful. I’d been warned, of course. We’re right off the edge of the woods here in Angelborough, and so far we’ve seen rabbits, wood chucks, orange squirrels, chipmunks, and…
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I’m hating the “Thomas And Friends DVD Experience.” Loathing it with the fiery passion of a thousand burning suns. Here’s how it used to work when it wasn’t an experience: My preschooler would say, “Mom, I want to watch a…
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At 8:30pm, with two Kiddos in bed and one more getting ready for bed, the smoke detector blared. I hauled a chair out into the hallway to disconnect the alarm, and we went over the whole house looking for anything…
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Someone told me her husband wouldn’t let them have three kids “because he doesn’t want the middle child to have middle-child syndrome.” I didn’t reply as I should have, that maybe if he was worried about that, he should parent…
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New weblog tour question: What is the biggest faux pas you’ve ever committed? What happened? Did you ever correct the mistake? What did you learn from the experience? I learned that teasing is in the eye of the beholder. This…
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It’s not only my cats that grieve. I’m also grieving for Kiddo#4. Between Kiddo#1 and Kiddo#2, we had a baby who died. Emily Rose had anencephaly; she was diagnosed prenatally at 23 weeks. I carried her to 42 weeks and…
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People keep chuckling when I say the transaction is cursed. I wish you would believe me. Six weeks in this house and we’re back to the flood insurance saga. On Saturday, we received a letter from the flood insurance people…
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Venus died last Friday. As my two middle Kiddos put it, “Now we have only two cats?” Venus came late into the house. We acquired the first two cats around the time we got married, the first one winning over…
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I met the woman who designed Google Maps! I had a few errands to run, and I decided to daisy-chain them when I looked up all the locations and saw it would be easy to get from one to the…
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I thought I’d seen it all in the “angel statue” genre. From the “angels pushing children” to the female Archangel Gabriel, I’ve looked at all of them, admired some, laughed at many, and spent too much money to count. And…
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