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• commentary, fashion, honesty, humor, money, Sally, Susan

  Fashion sense, and a giving heart

  02.11.08 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  I wore my new (from-a-clothes-swap-my-sister-went-to) puffy vest today, since it was only half a Siberia outside. I love the colors and I love vests, and fake fur is just so fun yet PETA-friendly. Susan said, You got your life jacket on, Mommy? Well, that’s fine. Turns out the high collar was really annoying anyway. Then [...]

• motherhood, potty-training, Susan

  How could you possibly ever get mad

  02.07.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  at a cute three-year old who bursts into the song Jesus Wants Me for a SunBEAM just as you’re about to throttle her for: throwing the mother of all tantrums when you accidentally (on purpose, but, you know) flush the toilet so the smell will subside when she WASN’T FINISHED YET, and screaming “Mommy, you’re [...]

• motherhood, Sally, Spot, Susan

  Girls Just Wanna Have Fun — or would, if they weren’t feeling sklunklish

  01.15.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  I have a good friend who had a girl for her third child, after having two blondie boys. All three kids wear glasses now; it’s adorable in a sort of a smart-Barbie-and-Ken way. She was so excited about the whole pink thing that she sometimes had to try multiple outfits on her baby before choosing [...]

• motherhood, Sally, Susan

  How to raise confident, content girls

  01.04.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  I thought about titling this post Our Christmas Haul, but of course, that isn’t what Christmas is all about, or My Resolutions, but they’re distressingly similar to last years,’ and that’s really sad or homey and familiar, depending on your mood. But then I remembered what I am succeeding at spectacularly daily. No, not finding [...]

• Sally, Spot, Susan

  Recent kiddie-isms

  12.23.07 | Permalink | Comments Off

  Sally had a question for me at the dinner table a couple weeks ago. It was: “Mom, are you going to be something when you get a little older? Like when you’re thirty-one or something?” Dick tried to tell her I was a mommy; Sally said, “but she just stays at home all day.” Out [...]

• blogging, Sally, Spot, Susan

  Makes-Me-Smile Monday: Kiddie-isms

  08.05.07 | Permalink | Comments Off

  Welcome to the Kiddie-isms edition of Makes-Me-Smile Monday. I know I’ve come out against the bragging brigade, but here’s a great opportunity to showcase your kiddies’ above-average-ness. I can’t help being proud (in a good way, naturally) of my own children for the following qualities they’ve mastered recently: Humility Sally (6) and her cousin Olivia [...]

• Family, Sally, Spot, Susan

  “Your kids are so good” “Your kids are the spawn of Satan”

  07.25.07 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  I flew with my three girls on Tuesday. From Salt Lake City to Albuquerque, and from Albuquerque to Tampa. It started out not so bad. Spot was, as usual, quite content. Sally was okay except when complaining that her younger (by 3 1/2 years!) sister was tormenting her. Susan was … well, Susan was Susan. [...]

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