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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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Great-Great Grandmama Olene would be so proud (maybe)
01.13.09 | Permalink | 12 CommentsI really have no idea if Grandmama Olene was crafty. I do know that she joined the Mormon church in Norway with her husband Andrew. They came across the plains to settle in Utah, but they didn’t stay long. Perhaps it was the cushy locomotive transportation then available rather than the soul-refining hardships of the [...]
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And how did that work out for you?
01.06.09 | Permalink | 14 CommentsA couple months ago I said something rude to my sister. It didn’t even really make sense, but it was definitely potentially rude. There we were, planning Thanksgiving, who would bring the sweet potatoes (me) and who would make the rolls (her) and who would cook the turkey (mom), and Marcy said that we didn’t [...]
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marriage, works for me
Enough Featherbrain to Stuff a King-Size Mattress
12.09.08 | Permalink | 13 CommentsI have lately come to the inevitable yet wrenching conclusion that Dick and I had no business marrying each other. We don’t fight (much) about sex, or money, or even politics, but we do struggle when it comes to the little things in life. Things like NOT LOCKING the car when it’s in the garage [...]
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Does this car make me look fat?
12.02.08 | Permalink | 12 CommentsI have a few (very reasonable) rules when I drive. These aren’t arbitrary personal preferences (as Dick would like to believe) so much as a little thing called LIFE OR DEATH. Because if mom gets distracted while driving, chances are she’ll crash the car and everyone will die and all the princess ponies you’ve ever [...]
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Confessions of a Martha
11.25.08 | Permalink | 13 CommentsIn high school, Melinda and I petitioned the guidance counselor to waive our vocational class requirement. AP chemistry and biology should count, we said, because they are vocational if you’re delusional enough in your youth to assume that of course you’ll become a doctor. And how lame would it be to have to take Foods [...]
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The Mod Podge Squad
11.18.08 | Permalink | 10 CommentsOnce again I bring you a tip that I am probably the last person on earth to hear about it. (Last time it was my mother’s revolutionary microwave-cleaning method). Have you heard of this stuff? It’s great. You smear it on a surface (like wood, glass, metal), then on a flat object (fabric, photographs, stickers, [...]
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