NATE: “Mommy, look…” ME: “Just a second, Nate. I’m washing the dishes.” NATE: “NO! You have to look right now…it’s only right now!” ME: “OK, what’s the emergency?” NATE: “Mommy…I can look right through my arm!” ME (Very busy but trying to seem interested by using the ‘repeat-what-they-say-in-a-question technique’): […]
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…I would tell YOU! Driving home from a show, I decided to stop at Starbucks. I don’t drink coffee, but I love me a Java-chip Frappuccino to pass the miles. Everything’s going great. I’m jamming on some “Wave” tunes on my Sirius radio; enjoying my Frap WAY too much and […]
…in everything! Mark and I used to be cool. We were “Swing Kids“. We wore vintage clothes; danced at cool clubs and hung out with other cool people. That was before kids. Now we are so NOT cool. We are comfortable. We wear “cozy” clothes that won’t hold […]
I’m paraphrasing a bit, but that’s basically what Mark said when we first saw Wickette. “I’ve always had BIG dogs. I don’t know if I want a small dog. How can you wrestle with a small dog? How can you play catch with a small dog? How can you snuggle […]
…so I signed the boys up for Tae Kwon Do. Then I was corrected by my 8 yr old in front of their new instructor, “No, Mommy…paint the fence was from the Karate Kid!” “Eh, hem…just a joke, Nate – just a joke.” There are lots of real reasons I […]
As a Mom, you know your kid has several cries. There’s the “I’m tired and hungry” cry, the “He took my light saber and I want it back” cry and the “My heart is truly broken” cry. That one is real and it makes ME cry when it […]