car crash on aisle three
“I want my cars back,” said Kiddo#4. We were in the grocery store, and when I looked down, I saw he wasn’t holding his two Matchbox cars, and I was relatively sure we’d brought them into the store. Kiddo#4 is…
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Monthly Archive: September 2010
Happy feast day!
September 29th is the feast day of the archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, the three angels known by name in the Bible. Because I’m Italian, I feel the urge to acknowledge their awesomeness by making a special dinner and dessert…
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toddlers on a plane
Actually, only one toddler. Mine. My toddler who has recently discovered how to make a scream so much like a roar that my neighbor’s kid leaped out of her car with a frightened “What was that?” the last time he…
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Stormy again
At his weblog today, my Patient Husband tells the story of how Stormy came to live with him. I was the cat-person. He was not. I figured we’d talk about getting a cat after we got married. Instead, she came…
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Stormy
Last week, we left The Swamp to spend five days in The Desert without internet access. I didn’t advertise this ahead of time, and I had posts scheduled, but I tried to make sure they were non-controversial because I wasn’t…
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catching dragonflies
Since half my social interaction takes place at the school bus stop, you hear a lot about it. So far it’s been nice weather, so we sit on the grass beside the thorn bushes and the overgrown shady spot beneath…
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Treacherous Mommy
I mentioned before how Kiddo#4 has body-image issues. He wants to wear shoes. He will not willingly remove his socks. He spent an entire summer’s swim lessons entering the pool wearing not only his swimsuit but also a t-shirt and…
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I’ll take “things that are not food” for $200, Hal.
“It’s been a while since I showed up on the blog,” I say to Hal, my amazing gourmet-chef boyfriend from the novel we both appear in, Honest And For True. “In fact, I don’t think you ever have.” Hal appears…
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Guest blogging
Hi! I’ve been invited to guest-blog over at the QueryTracker blog, so every so often I may redirect my writing-related posts over to there. In fact, I’ll direct you over there today for my first guest-blog entry. (Forgive me, but…
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musical association
My Patient Husband was setting up his new toy (a Patient iPhone) and it played a couple of notes before he shut it off. I looked up from across the kitchen. “What was that? The opening of Jesu Joy Of…
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