This afternoon, KT brought three spatulas into the front room and asked if we wanted to play a game. I immediately knew that she wanted to play the Wooden Spoon game/prank on her sister. Now a good mother would do her best to protect her young from all harm…not allow her sister to teach her a . . . → Read More: The Worst Mother in the World
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What do you mean we weren’t speaking of Spring Break? Of course we were, it’s just been a little while…. Now, where were we? My friend…um…I’m going to call her Genie ‘cause she’s the one who waved her magic wand and made it all happen. (Genies do too have magic wands! Well, at least my genie . . . → Read More: Speaking of Spring Break… We were spending some family time together, when out of the blue our oldest daughter KT asked what “granola” meant. My husband looked at her for a moment as though she had grown a second head before telling her quite matter-of-factly that granola was a breakfast cereal. The kind of cereal, he teased, that he had been . . . → Read More: Our Granola Girl In our house, I’ve always been the one to take charge of the kids. If Shaun had to to take over for a time, he was always faced with the dreaded words “that’s not how Mama does it!” (Yep, I’ve set a high standard!) As the girls have gotten older, they can pretty much do anything . . . → Read More: Division of Labor Outside My Window..the sun looks as though it may break through the cloud cover, there is a certain, vaguely familiar glow off to the east. My garden is blooming and really starting to come alive. It makes me happy. I am thankful for…the wonderful weekend I had. It was full to the brim with just spending . . . → Read More: A Rare (for me) Meme This weekend we attended our second Vegfest. For those of you that are thinking this may have been a chance to veg out in a huge exhibition hall with hundreds of other folks…sort of a Woodstock without the bands…or the drugs…you would be mistaken. “Veg”, in this instance is referring to the vegetarian or vegan lifestyle. . . . → Read More: VegFest 2010 It wasn’t too long ago that Spring Break was a time for my girls and I to reconnect and get some down time away from all the pressures of school. (You think work is bad? Try learning to read!) This time of year rarely ever lined up with a convenient vacation time for Shaun, so we . . . → Read More: Spring Break Earlier this week, Mimi reminded me that there was only a few more days until Easter as she looked pointedly at the gaily decorated display of Easter Baskets in the store we were in. I merely looked at her and mumbled something about having thought that the Easter Bunny had retired from our house as Mimi . . . → Read More: A Rather Different Easter  |
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