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-a jillion things- : A Few of My Favorite Things this Week
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Wednesday, May 14, 2014. A Few of My Favorite Things this Week. A few of my favorite things this week:. Who cannot stop reading. I used to make him sit with me on my bed and read for 30 minutes a day. He would cry and tell me I was the meanest mom in the world. Now I sit on his bed at night and make him give me my book and he tells me that I am the meanest mom in the world. I love being mean. My new ottoman. It is awesome because my husband bought it for me and he hates it. If he furnished/decora...2 A r...
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-a jillion things- : 50 things to do before I'm 50
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Friday, May 2, 2014. 50 things to do before I'm 50. I have this friend named Brittany M. who is amazing. Really, is there any thing she can't do? So if I were to add things I've already done this week to my list, I might add:. Sat through a college graduation. Really, we can put a man on the moon but we can't make graduation a little more entertaining? I got my teeth cleaned. Have I mentioned that I'd rather go through childbirth than have any kind of dental procedure? What's on your list? That sounds li...
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-a jillion things- : Taser Tess
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Saturday, May 17, 2014. Tomorrow is the women's high school Division 1 Lacrosse Championship game. At least here it is. Women's lacrosse is a combination of Red Light Green Light and Mother May I. Men's lacrosse is kind of like legalized assault and battery. It looks like this:. I am no longer allowed to watch men's lacrosse because I yell things like, "KILL HIM! And I jump up and down and throw things and I totally look like one of these parents:. And I don't even know who's playing. The only problem wi...
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-a jillion things- : The Present I Would Take
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Tuesday, May 6, 2014. The Present I Would Take. You would be 71 if you were here, but you have been gone for almost 8 years now. Mom, if you were here, I wouldn't spend time looking for a unique gift or searching for the perfect card. I did that while you were alive and when you died, you left all those things here and well, they are just things; so instead of giving, I would take. What did you dream of doing? Because, it has occurred to me that your 9:00 to 5:00 desk job was probably not your dream life.
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-a jillion things- : March 2012
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Friday, March 30, 2012. Mr Anderson, Mr. Anderson, Mr. Anderson! Attached to teenagers- no easy task- and eating my lunch in the bathroom. My daughter, T is the spitting image of me in eighth-grade only she has a harness on all that big-footed, awkward lurpiness because she is a finely-tuned athlete and is not scared of her own shadow or her principal. Adolescents get ideas like this when their parents are gone to PTA meetings, church meetings and caucus meetings and their kids are running a muck watchin...
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-a jillion things- : Grandpa - Doing That Thing You Do
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Friday, April 25, 2014. Grandpa - Doing That Thing You Do. When I was 16, I went to a church track meet, not to run, but to check out all the cutie boys in shorty- shorts, because I was that kind of a desperate pubescent mess. Somehow I ended up running the 440, although the word running is probably a gross exaggeration of what I actually did. School started and we had our first race. The gun went off and I got about 1/3 of the way around the track and realized that my heart was beating in my brain a...
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-a jillion things- : The Trouble With Boys
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009. The Trouble With Boys. When I was 4 months pregnant with our seventh child, my husband and I watched intently as I received the all telling which gender will the baby be, ultrasound. We left the kids home this time after our son last time, upon learning that he would have yet another sister, did the shouty-pouty routine accompanied with the stink-eye for the bad-news-bearer. It was high drama I tell you. How are two people that only carve turkey on Thanksgiving and pumpkins at...
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-a jillion things- : It's Nice to be Important but it's More Important to be Nice
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Thursday, April 17, 2014. It's Nice to be Important but it's More Important to be Nice. I've been thinking a lot about being nice. Nice people rock. Nice people who are nice when it's hard to be nice especially rock, like the man who helped clean frozen whipped cream smeared all over my daughter's windows in sub-zero weather after a basketball game because some dumb boy thought this was a better way to say yes to a dance than flowers, a note or a. Did I mention that he was visiting our school? I get home...
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-a jillion things- : February 2012
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012. Yes, I Still Love the Man and all Those Kids. Last week when I was doing that lucrative, exciting job I have called subbing, I had an interesting conversation with a mother that came to help in the classroom. Of course this converesation took place between snippets of other conversations with kindergartners that went like this:. Kevin, get those scissors out of your mouth. Kevin, put your shirt back on. Teacher, Delia says I have a girl cousin and I don't. Yes," I replied wi...
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-a jillion things- : June 2014
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Wednesday, June 25, 2014. Blogging, Math, Cruises and Red Ribbon Week. For the past 20 years. Every time I start to convince myself that the ocean is "ok," the R.D. But this summer I faced my fear and went on a cruise. A cruise is like a small country with too much food and too much gambling and a walking art gallery of tattoos floating in the ocean. And yes, even though I'm back, my stomach rolls just thinking about it. (Did I mention there are a lot more rolls on my stomach? So I can cross "face my fea...