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Friday, June 27th, 2008

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Brought home The Spiderwick Chronicles last night to occupy the three youngest ones so I could veg while Her Hotness was at book club. It’s a pretty intense show for a four year old. Less so for a two […]

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Thursday, June 19th, 2008

If I seem to be fixated on the ball park lately, it’s not my fault. For some reason, that environment is conducive to all kinds of parenting strangeness.
Oh, and if I’m fixated on the scatological lately, that also is not my fault. We’re a moist family. I did not know this.
Raise the curtain on […]

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Thursday, June 12th, 2008

Getting ready to go to Grandma’s for the day without Her Hotness. Me with all the kids. By myself.
Me to Girl 2: “C’mon sweetie, it’s time to get ready to go to Grandma’s.”
Girl 2, concerned (I’m not making this up): “What will I wear?”
What will you wear? What will you wear?? You’re two years old! […]

In Which Her Hotness Blows Milk Out Her Nose

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

At a recent dinner hour (always an adventure at Chez Five), Her Hotness and Girl 16 were messing with me about something. Prolly nose hair or deafness or other undeniable proof that I’m getting old.
I interrupted with my best outraged voice: “OnedayI’llbegoneandyou’llbesorry!”
Girl 16 had just taken a drink of milk. She clamped her hand […]

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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

Boy 7: “I make up a lot of jokes, but sometimes even I don’t get ‘em.”

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