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  Love of my life

  09.28.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Sometimes I would like to think that I have Tourette’s Syndrome, because the things that come out of my mouth when I am tired or hungry or cranky are shocking, or would be, if my poor family were not already inured to the sound of the f-word exploding from my lips. If I felt I [...]

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  and I have had plenty of bright sunshine over the years

  06.15.09 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  My mother-in-law is having cataract surgery tomorrow, and she has kept me informed about the procedure and plans. Since we moved to Utah almost two years ago, we haven’t been able to see Dick’s mom and sister and our nieces, and I miss them. (And my brother-in-law and nephew. Grampa we have seen, and wasn’t [...]

• Family

  Biker Babes

  04.26.09 | Permalink | 12 Comments

  This week is Susan’s special week at preschool, which means I am scrambling to create a poster “highlighting her family and favorite things to do.” It also means that on Wednesday I will remember to make peanut butter balls (edible playdough) approximately three minutes before we’re supposed to leave to take her to school. It [...]

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  Hey Mommy, that’s a white boy!

  04.23.09 | Permalink | 13 Comments

  At church this week I ended up on the hemmed in side of the pew. This usually happens to me, even though I remember I hate the inexorable tide of three children and a loving husband pressing me into the corner where the pew meets the wall, because I am usually the first to walk [...]

• Family

  Start all the clocks

  04.11.09 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  Start all the clocks, get on your Sunday best Let the dogs bark, let them wake us from our rest Strike up the organ, the choir shout Hurray! For He is risen, and is not where He lay. Pink-gloved daughters, sons in pastel ties Full of sugar, sticky fingers, high happy cries Scribble with crayons [...]

• Family

  It’s silly to cry, but I am overcome

  02.27.09 | Permalink | 17 Comments

  This morning as I pulled out of our neighborhood, Sally and Susan wanted to know why there were flags at the end of the cul-de-sac. I turned my head to look back, then shrugged. Maybe today is Washington’s or Lincoln’s actual birthday, I guessed. I dropped them off at school; Susan was incensed that her [...]

• Family

  One nation, founded on the freedoms of speech, religion, and sartorial independence

  02.16.09 | Permalink | 11 Comments

  I have a strict no-coat-forcing policy. And the tattoo? It came in Susan’s pre-school Valentine haul. It’s a frog, and it’ll wash off in a few days. Just like the piercings that’ll heal over in no time. In honor of President’s Day, my parents held a fire and ice party. We did the snow first, [...]

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