Ritual banter
The dentist is always good for a blog post (especially when he uses a blow torch.) Yesterday while talking to one of my kids, he said, “Open wide. I don’t see so good,” and wide-eyed, I said, “I don’t want…
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family
**giggle**
There’s a meme where you’ve got to put a descriptor of yourself at the top of the image and then six photos beneath to illustrate how various individuals view you in that position. For example, this one from here: Someone…
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Our new kitten, part two
The kitten has settled into the household without any hassles. I thought it would take a couple of weeks of gating him off in a separate room before we were able to have him out. Instead it took two days…
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FINALLY!
Yeesh. I figured it would never happen, but this morning, this was what I was able to see from the kitchen table. (You can click on the picture for more snowy goodness.) I’ll be back later with pictures of the…
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“Hey, no!”
The woman at the pet shelter said, “And you can change his name, you know.” I said, “I’m sure we will.” Except five days later, we still haven’t. But first let me back up a bit. Kiddo2, fully in love…
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A cute Christmas story
This isn’t mine. I think it belongs originally to one of the moms from the anencephaly support group, from about eight years ago. If anyone can identify the original owner of the story, go ahead and let me know in…
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Some Thursday randoms
1) I just horrified my lovely neighbor by singing “Christmas At Ground Zero” at the bus stop. She finally managed to say, “Weren’t you the person who asked me yesterday if it was disrespectful that the preschool taught your son…
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Just call me Dr. Philangelus
Back when I had Kiddo#1, I liked reading medical-type documents even though I’ve never worked in medicine. I’d learned from my mother not to just accept a doctor’s word for things and (unfortunately) my experience with doctors had borne out…
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boomerang
I haven’t been here for a while due to holiday craziness and general life craziness. I need to fix that, so I was thinking about posting light-hearted generally funny stuff. As it turns out, I do come from a family…
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even the stereotypes
Now in an utterly different level of serious, we have a conversation between me and Kiddo#3 about stereotyping. Kiddo#3 likes the Hot Chelle Rae song “Tonight Tonight.” If you haven’t heard it, imagine a party song filled with every musical…
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