Kris Kringle Barfed in my Sunroom

It was a Cheer-splosion!  There were great gobs of paper and sticky food and amazing friends and family.  Man alive, what a mess.
I blather on about the noise and mess like some old Grinch, but Christmas was a fine time this year.  The day started off  pretty slow just a baby girl and one brother-in-law [...]

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Well, this is embarrassing…

I actually really love it when FireFox updates in the middle of the night and wrecks my session while I sleep. It gives me that little “Well, this is embarrassing…” page.  OOps! We’ve forgotten the 3 bagillion pages you left open.  Wanna start a new session?
Sure I do. It’s nice the way they take responsibility, [...]

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H1N1

I gots the shot today. I am covered – assuming I don’t already have the disease swarming in my body already. The girls gots the stick in the arm, too. The doctor is concerned about Saralyn’s weight. Too heavy. What do I do about it?

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The clothes that make the girls…

I spent the whole morning cleaning out Saralyn’s closets – sorting the piles into Consign – Goodwill and Junk.  I took a whole diaper box of too small clothes to the consignment store, lugged them in, got a gash of a paper cut from the box and found out that they don’t do kids clothes [...]

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Weekend Recap

Thoughts, in no particular order, hence the dots.

Turtle in the carport. Friday – it rained cats and dogs all day. Hence the very big turtle in the car port. Eleanor got to get up close and personal while the big slowpoke waited for its mate and Noah. It rejected the parsley and moved on when [...]

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She picked it, not me.

I’ve spent considerable time today looking at party plates with Eleanor.  Her birthday is just under a month away, but more importantly, it’s one VBS and two weeks of swimming lessons away.  That’s an eternity in mom years. But I digress.
Eleanor, approaching 4-years old with glorious tantrums, is the prettiest princess loving princess that ever-ever [...]

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Memo from Saralyn: the beach sucks

Saralyn got her little toes in the sand today. Then the crying started. Sand is yucky. Sand sticks to hands. And legs, and bottoms. The journey to the beach happened just after my younger peed her swim pants on the carpet in my parents condo. As far as Saralyn, my [...]

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Barf bounceback

It was the smell that tipped me off when I opened the door to Eleanor’s room. It took some further investigation to actually find the puke folded neatly into the white comforter.
Ugg. Not again.
For those scoring at home, Saralyn has had it and is OVER it, Eleanor has had it and it has [...]

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Shift

Saralyn is walking.  She’s been standing for months and taking steps for MANY weeks, but her primary mode of here-to-there has been the crawl.  Until this week, that is.  Now she is actively using her feet to go where she wants.   It’s not pretty.  It’s not quick.  It’s like watching one of those bugs that [...]

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Christmas Recap

OK.  Who else is whipped?  I feel like a wrung out sponge.  A spare tear to shed? Not from me.  Done.  And this, only the 3rd day of Christmas.
One deep breath and a good night’s sleep make for the perfect remedy.  A liberal application of lottery winnings would not hurt, either.  Nevertheless…
Christmas morning came.  Eleanor [...]

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