Where am I?

I was sitting here thinking, “I will write about my weekend!” but then I couldn’t remember the weekend. Huh. Weird.
Oh! I know what we did. Duh! I was there!
Friday night the kids had friends sleep over. One of the children is diabetic and we’d never had her overnight before. I was nervous and slept for [...]

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Biblical Curse Generator

Via Loralee: The Biblical Curse Generator.
Harken, O thou who art a byword for idiocy, for you will beget difficult teenagers!

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The Price Is Wrong, Bitch.*

After struggling with malware and its removal until midnight, I decided to read a real live book until I got sleepy. Unfortunately, I am reading a really good book and didn’t get sleepy until 6:00. That would be 6:00 in the morning. I slept until my little guy woke me at 8:30 to tell me [...]

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It’s Thursday. I’d like to bitch about it.

In the last couple of weeks we have:

lost a television
admitted a washing machine to Home Appliance ICU
listened as our son vacuumed the vacuum cleaner’s cord
repaired the A/C in my car so it is cold but won’t blow
had a really annoying bit of malware pop up on our computer

Today I spent several hours at my [...]

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SUMMER!

Remember how we were going to run through the sprinkler and stuff in the backyard? It turns out my kids would rather blast music in the basement and scream and chase each other. It also turns out it is flippin’ WINDY here, so I can’t blame them.
After our television plunged to its near-death (more on [...]

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We got something from the bakery instead.

Tired, hungry and craving sugar, two sisters stand in a foreign Walmart’s cookie aisle eyeballing the options. Noticing movement to their left, the pair turns and stands open-mouthed as they gaze in horror upon another shopper. Dressed in a white shirt and white pants pushing her cart full of goodies, the woman is covered in [...]

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RIP Little TV

Yesterday my daughter went to the waterpark with her friend. When my daughter left, her little brother’s world fell apart and the wailing and sobbing was spectacular.
In a last-resort attempt to calm him down, my oldest boy started a movie on the television in my bedroom. When my little guy was finally coaxed into the [...]

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Is it child abuse to have children you can’t afford? I say no.

Karen has started a discussion about raising healthy kids. In her post, she says:
Yesterday, the author of Violent Acres wrote this amazing post as a follow up to another one, both based on the fact that it is child abuse to have children you can’t afford. Her example was indicative of part of what is [...]

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Meme: In The Spotlight

I was tagged for this meme by Carter-Ann at The Baby Gravy Train. This meme is a bit different because you get to pick which questions you’d like to answer. Head over to Christy’s Coffee Break for the list of questions and Official Rules and Such. I’m going to answer the questions Carter-Ann answered, plus [...]

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Monday!

It’s here. The official start to our summer vacation. Hooray!
I promised there would be iced tea and sprinklers and the trashy radio station. So far, we have iced tea. It probably won’t be hot enough for sprinklers, and even if it were, our yard is a swamp after all the rain we’ve gotten lately. Trashy [...]

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