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Fruit Tarts and Bubble Chasing and the Mixed Bag
So this weekend was a mixed bag. There was a kerfuffle over whether I could see Mabel, then a kerfuffle over having to give her back almost as quickly as I got her. That was awful. On the plus...
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The Lizard of Flaws
To say that my daughter loves and adores and is obsessed with the Tin Man, and Dorothy, and Toto, and the Wicked Witch would be on par with saying Nancy Grace loves to shout and use quotey fingers....
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I Could Hug a Dolphin. But Not This Past Weekend.
This weekend I was alone. It rained, and got cold, and rained some more. I made chili. I left all the lamps on, all the time. I watched an obsessive amount of the Gilmore Girls. I pulled all the...
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Hisses and Colds
Lots of sick days around here lately, which means lots of soup and couch sitting and patience. Lots and lots of patience. Why patience you ask? Because the Janester has discovered cat sounds. If my...
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Help
The truth is, lately, I found myself needing an extra set of hands. But not those in the picture. Those are just entirely creepy and remind me of the Weeping Angels on Doctor Who. If I was going to...
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Fancy
This particular Halloween is one of my earliest memories. I can even remember the smell of my mom’s Aqua-net hairspray in that bathroom. Wasn’t she gorgeous? Wait. IS GORGEOUS. I’ve fallen down into...
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Ready Freddy
It’s Halloween in two days. We are ready. I’ve spent this week wondering about a lot of things I don’t understand. Useless in real life things, and yet they could all potentially come in handy when...
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Getting It
I’ve never really been on the outside looking in. I’m white. I grew up middle class (not upper, not lower, just smack in the middle). I went to college. I got married. I graduated. Got a job. Bought a...
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Halloween. With Wed Lipstick.
This morning my heart is full and happy. And a little sad. But mostly full and happy. Fayez came to spend Halloween with us. Yay. Jane trick or treated with a band of older boys and kept up with them...
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Bees and Egg Arms and God Bless
Things change whether we like them or not. Like this whole “falling back” time change thing. It’s about as useful as tits on a boar hog and no one can convince me it should still be happening. Hats...
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We Can Learn A Lot From These Freakishly Smart Tiny People.
Step 1 of avoiding bed time: Cheesing. Step 2 of avoiding bed time: Singing. Loudly. Step 3 of avoiding bed time: Just being generally adorable and charming. Small children are the unhailed geniuses...
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Toys That Will Apparently Make A Child’s Christmas Dreams Taste Like Nightmares
So in my quest to find Jane the perfect Christmas present, I’ve been perusing eBay. I decided to check out vintage toys, because, hello, vintage. I was just not prepared for what I found. The dolls...
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Cajun’s Made Me Stop Being a Hermit. Which is Basically Like a Christmas...
On the weekends where I don’t have Jane, I tend to hide. It’s not necessarily a bad thing. I grocery shop wearing sunglasses. I clean the apartment from top to bottom. I even find myself scrubbing...
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“Fine, If We Can Have One Like Her, Fine.”
This weekend was a super big slow down for me and the Janester. I had a migraine. The weather was freezing. We spent loads of time in pajamas, watched cartoons, snuggled, and I learned the important...
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What I Learned This Week
1. I learned that when Jane kicks my knee hard enough to leave a knot and a bruise, then hugs me, kisses me, tells me I’m her best friend and then sneezes directly into my open mouth, she’s just...
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The Rotten Pumpkin
*There are so many more awesome princess trashing images here. Happy Friday. You’re welcome. So Disney made a movie about Cinderella. You know the ominous way characters from Game of Thrones...
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Sometimes It Rains Men. Sometimes It Does Not.
What a lovely weekend it was. The rain. The fall leaves. Dinner with friends. Cooking. Cleaning. *Minus my pre-Thanksgiving grocery store run, or as I will now refer to it, Lord of the Flies, Yoga...
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We’re Off
e It’s Thanksgiving. We’re going to eat casseroles, and travel, and forget there every was such a thing as maggots falling from the ceiling. Happy turkey day folks.
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Onward
Fayez and I spent Thanksgiving with his family in Atlanta. We took a road trip. We did not kill each other. We ate so much good food. We napped. Okay, I napped while he drove. And now, as I’m...
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