more more?
We keep hoping Kiddo#4 will be “our boy who doesn’t require speech therapy.” So far, Kiddo#2 was speaking in whole sentences and composing sonnets by 10 months of age, and the other two needed a speech therapist to tell them…
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Monthly Archive: November 2008
Aaaargh — my baby did an end run around me!
Remember how I said the jokes rock when you have four kids? Well, my baby stymied me. I can’t use my “oneth” joke. I just felt in his mouth and he’s cut TWO teeth. Meaning he has not “oneth” but…
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words over time
Sometimes five or six threads come together in life and it all makes sense when you put the unrelated pieces together with one another. (And I’ll link all my blog posts that I’m referring to here.) Because I can’t stand…
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too pointy for you!
For starters, this is not the teacher’s fault. But once again, I’m furious about zero tolerance. Kiddo#2 has begun learning to knit. She’s excited about it and wants to make knitted bookmarks for everyone in her class. She’s got a…
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Oh, right, the mental health industry
For a moment there, I’d forgotten I was dealing with the mental health people. It’s time to call in the boy’s prescription, so I call the number for the office. “Why are you calling here?” the receptionist snaps. “We don’t…
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Goodbye, cruel word
Last night, I lay down in bed, and for a moment exhaustion overwhelmed me. I thought, “Wow, God, I’m just here like a sack of potatoes.” Then, because my body can be exhausted without involving my brain, I began thinking…
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angels, babies, and predicting the future
“I know angels can’t see into the future,” I said out loud, “so I’m going to show it to you.” I was alone in the bathroom. I leaned in close to the mirror, pulled up one hair, and snipped it…
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So what if Jesus was inconvenienced?
On another forum, someone replied to yesterday’s post with, “So what if Jesus was only inconvenienced?” Well, good point. I said I was willing to be proven wrong, and the best shoot-down to all my head-spaciness would be, “Why would…
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Angel photographed at the Vatican
It may or may not be a trick of the light, but it’s really a neat picture regardless. An angel got photographed in the Vatican! Click the thumbnail for the photo. And yeah, I guess it’s from the Daily Mail,…
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Jesus, inconvenienced
Ivy made me laugh when she referred to Jesus as submitting to death, then added in a parenthetical, “Well, inconvenience, really.” As a Christian, I admit that confuses me too. Assuming Jesus knew in advance he’d “come out the other…
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