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kids
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kids, sex
Rude awakening
05.28.10 | Permalink | 5 CommentsLet me preface this by saying that rarely has my husband been so attractive to me. First he mopped the floors and washed the dishes after a long day of work and his (exhausting) weekly basketball game. Then he told me, after watching the kids for the first of three days, that whenever he has [...]
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kids
untitled, March, 2010
03.23.10 | Permalink | 4 Comments*Yet another reason I need an iPhone, so I can take pictures like Steph’s, on the go.
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kids
Think MTV’s Teen Mom is hiring? (or the Jerry Springer show?)
02.09.10 | Permalink | 5 CommentsSusan: I want to try to get pregnant. Me: You maybe want to wait until you have a husband to do that. Susan: {chortling} Daddy’s my husband! —— *I don’t think I knew at five that you had to “try” to get pregnant. **We had The Talk with Sally a couple weeks ago; I didn’t [...]
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kids
Tender Mercies: Unspoiled Edition
11.19.09 | Permalink | 11 CommentsIn our church lady meeting the other day, we were discussing which kids needed to be separated from former-best-friends-turned-punching-bags as we organize Sunday school classes for the new year. In other words, our problem children. I’ll be the first to admit that all children can be quite problematic under the right circumstances (three hours of [...]
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kids
Great Moments in Mothering: Reserving the mean voice for things that really deserve it
09.10.09 | Permalink | 4 CommentsFor Example: Finding two (2!) whole bananas in the trashcan. Normally I would just pick them out, but they were peeled, and sitting directly on top of a clump of kitty litter, which Spot apparently carried over from the litter box oh-so-helpfully, in the slotted shovel (get it? It’s slotted so you only scoop the [...]
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humor, kids
Dangerous Pigs from Australia
04.30.09 | Permalink | 12 CommentsThis is how my six-year-old niece explained swine flu to her four-year-old sister. If only our appointed officials had such clarity: Dangerous pigs from Australia are coming here to give us a disease. Never go to Australia. If your teacher takes a field trip to Australia, Ali, don’t go on it. Pigs want to give [...]
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kids, parenting
Seperate but equal? Talk to your father, babe
12.20.08 | Permalink | 4 CommentsThe girls and I spend most Tuesday and Thursday mornings with Chrysanthemum and her kids. Chrysanthemum is lucky enough to have one of each, a girl and an alien being from the planet Jane, How does this work? Rachel is the same age as my Susan (4) and Jacob is the same age as my [...]
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