Category Archives: daughters

Don’t blink

Posted on June 5, 2013 by

I haven’t wanted to talk about this. I haven’t talked about it to my best friend or my shrink, only to Sweet Babou. I think that in great distress my mind goes into a default of, “If I talk about … Continue reading →

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An hour in crazytown

Posted on May 31, 2013 by

8:00 AM:  All the children are awake and zipping around the house. They have discovered that they can all play Granny’s badly-tuned piano AT ONCE. They are singing Jingle Bells. I am rapidly losing my will to live. 8:15 AM:  … Continue reading →

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The Potty Train has left the station

Posted on May 28, 2013 by

Y’all, I am having my dreaded monthly biological event (which is now more painful more frequent as my body hurls eggs down my fallopian tubes hoping to meet some nice sperm and make a few more babies before my uterus … Continue reading →

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Saturday BlogHer

Posted on May 25, 2013 by

I am up on BlogHer again. You can see me segue from Stitch’s haircut to my potential plastic surgery, for a non sequitur win.

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Cute Fokkers Being Cuties

Posted on May 24, 2013 by

Lilo had her play last weekend; one performance Friday night and one for Saturday matinee.  She played Tigger, but honestly there was so much ham in her performance she could have been Piglet. All the kids are young enough to … Continue reading →

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I am too sad to write a happy post

Posted on May 21, 2013 by

I was planning on blogging about the fun and happiness of Lilo’s play today, but I can’t. My heart is too heavy to find the words. I am grief-stricken about the children lost in the Oklahoma tornadoes, including the seven … Continue reading →

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Bliss for Rudolf

Posted on May 20, 2013 by

Sweet Babou was wonderfully contrite after our little kerfuffle on Thursday. He apologized for being grumpy and out of sorts, and I apologized for being snide. He assured me my “loud talking” was only an issue when it was happening … Continue reading →

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May the 4th be with you!

Posted on May 6, 2013 by

Today was not just Star Wars Day, although that is awesome enough. Today was also the day of the birthday party for my middle daughter, Stitch. Months ago, she decided that what she really wanted was an Angry Bird Star … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday Stitch!!

Posted on May 1, 2013 by

My darling middle child is six years old today. She lost a second bottom tooth last night, so she is feeling quite the grown-up-almost-first-grader. She has also decided that she wants a “Roxanne Ritchi” haircut. For those of you who … Continue reading →

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Trying to find a happy place

Posted on April 16, 2013 by

I am not going to blog about Boston today, except to say that people in the media calling this the “first act of terror in America since 9/11” are full of shit. There have been PLENTY of domestic terrorist acts … Continue reading →

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