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homemaking madness
Public Service Announcement: The FULL Monty *Clarified*
01.24.09 | Permalink | 42 CommentsA while ago there was a meme going around where people (women, as far as I know) posted pictures of themselves first thing in the morning. I think this was supposed to make us feel better about how real women really look, but mostly if made me feel fat, and creased, and like I have [...]
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Daily Dick and Jane
She doesn’t do bathrooms either
01.23.09 | Permalink | Comments OffSusan blames this on Spot, but then she has a history of fingering Spot for things for which Spot has an unassailable alibi.
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works for me
Look, Ma, Princess Pancakes!
01.20.09 | Permalink | 28 CommentsWhenever Sally gets a bit spoiled, when she says, for example, that the tooth fairy should “bring more than twenty cents, at least,” I like to apply some realistic shock therapy. And one of the best materialism-correctives out there is Little House on the Prairie — both the books by Laura Ingalls Wilder and the [...]
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Daily Dick and Jane
Sadly, she’s probably better at this than I am
Spot came to me early in the morning a few weeks ago, crying that she needed a new diaper: “New dah-per, Mommy, new dah-per.” I unzipped her and was assaulted by the smell of the poop that had escaped her diaper and onesie; it was all over inside her footie pajamas. I zipped her back [...]
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where i'm at
Bittersweet
01.19.09 | Permalink | 21 CommentsI got a message on Facebook today from an old friend, who, if I had not ended our relationship thirteen years ago, I wouldn’t be in this life I have here. I wouldn’t curl myself up next to Dick every night. I wouldn’t read Mr. Fine Porcupine with Spot or play tooth fairy for Sally [...]
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outings
Passing on our paranoias, one kid at a time
01.15.09 | Permalink | 20 CommentsWe took the girls to Walking with Dinosaurs last night, thanks to the generous PR people. I’ll admit that at first I was a bit disappointed that the dinosaurs were actually mechanized puppets on roller thingies. Not that I expected real dinosaurs, of course, though surely Steven Spielberg could’ve loaned out a few of the [...]
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blogging
Emancipating Myself From Acute Comment Anxiety
01.14.09 | Permalink | 3 CommentsThere’s a scene halfway through Some Kind of Wonderful where Watts (Mary Stuart Masterson) tells her best friend Keith (Eric Stolz) that perhaps they shouldn’t hang out any more. Keith’s pursuit of the popular Amanda Jones (Lea Thompson) is driving Watts crazy. She says “I’d rather have you not see me and think good things [...]
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