Seven Angels, Four Kids, One Family
Sometimes sarcasm is the only sane response
I have been told that despite my blog’s subtitle (at the time of this posting: “Sarcasm served up daily”) I am not, in fact, sarcastic. In the email, the writer (who may identify himself if he chooses) pondered whether I’m…
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Kiddo#4 has made a discovery: you can use language to say stupid things. More to the point, language can create things that don’t exist. And this he finds hilariously funny. It happened for the first time a couple of weeks…
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My Patient Husband said, “Oh, I forgot to tell you my fortune.” He and a group of co-workers had gone to a Chinese restaurant for lunch, and in his fortune cookie he’d received a very special message. You are the…
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Elana Roth had a contest over Twitter to see who could tell the best “big fat fib.” You could tweet up to five fibs with the #fatfib hashtag and she and Darren Farrell, author of the book Doug-Dennis And The…
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Once again, it’s that time when after reading Kiddo#4 the same book too often, I begin to overthink it. It’s my opinion that The Cat In The Hat doesn’t really exist. No, I know the books are fiction. What I…
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I finished my Sunday Swing socks, which are kind of a Frankensock because I used the body pattern of the Sunday Swing Sock and the heel/gusset pattern and the toes from the Sleepy Hollow socks. I think they came nice….
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On Wednesday last week, I looked out the window and was shocked by the sun. Bright sun, strong shadows. It had been five days since I’d seen the sky. We’d gotten rain. We got a heckuvalot of rain, to the…
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Friday evening, Friday night, and all day Saturday were peppered with thoughts of impending doom. I couldn’t have told you what doom impended. I just knew disaster was about to strike, and I felt spooked. Fortunately, I know myself and…
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Last year, I posted my family’s super-secret recipe for Easter Bread, thus rendering it no longer secret, but it’s still super. I just slipped it into the oven now and realized I should remind you guys: make your Easter Bread….
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