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Category Archives: You Kiss Your Mother With That Mouth?
Back-up plan
As I mentioned last week, I’m filling my precious kid-free hours by making plans and setting goals for the new year. This can be a stressful exercise for someone with lofty ambitions, limited time, ample fear, and a newly adopted Omigod I’m 40 and I Gotta Make Something Happen tendency.
But I’m pushing through…armed with the reassurance that if my career as a writer and photographer falls through, I can always manage my kids’ wildly successful careers as the next Jackass stars.
Souvenirs
I know, I know…I have been gone and didn’t even bother to bring back a lousy T-shirt for you. Please accept my apologies and these belated postcards.
Ah, here we are at a beautiful, family-friendly beach resort. By “resort” of course I mean “random city park in the middle of nowhere.” Lucky for us, the event organizers provided babysitters…
But that’s not all we’ve been up to!
We spent some quality time with family. All the cousins! Yay! And traditions! Yay! Like food and football and an annual photo with all seven cousins sitting together looking adorable. Or maybe just six of them. Because maybe a certain 2-year-old (ahem) might decide to throw an unholy fit and refuse to stand anywhere near the group without spitting and crying and hurling his body all about. Family bonding!
But that boy, he is no dummy, that’s for sure. He knows a travel tip when he sees it:
When you have to take a trip to time-out, you might as well pack snacks.
I swear we are pacifists
Ah, the third child. He can charm his way through even the strongest convictions.
Just sayin
Turns out that of the many provocative phrases my toddler has learned from his older siblings, “butt fart” is not the most offensive to my ears.
I’d take it any day over this one: “Not fair, Mama! Not fair!”
Public Service Announcement
The low-rise dilemma: it’s not just a teen problem.
It’s never too early to talk to your kids.
So please talk early, talk often.
With the right guidance, you can keep experimentation from turning to tragedy.
Delish
How can I possibly leave my glamorous daily life during this brutal Texas summer for a few days in San Diego at the incredible BlogHer11 conference?
Words can’t describe how easy it will be!
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If you will be there too, please drop me a note! Would love to see some of my bloggy pals!
Problem solved?
When Rascal and I reached a standstill on how to calmly discuss
The (OMGfortheloveofpeteitisouttacontrol) Whining Problem in our home, we agreed to take the discussion to a neutral location.
So far, so good.
The artist’s lair
Don’t ask me…all I know is that I CANNOT TOUCH ANY OF THIS OR ELSE!
good night and good morning
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
~Emerson
