I’ll have the martyr sandwich, with a pint of pale ale, please.
Every couple months, this treacly status makes the rounds on Facebook:
To all the UNSELFISH MOMS out there who traded sleep for dark circles. Salon haircuts for ponytails, long baths for quick showers. Late nights for early mornings, designer bags for...
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Yeah, it’s been a while. The last week of school was packed with activities, but now we are done and it is summer vacation! For the uninitiated, this means I have about 4 weeks of happy activity and loving communication before I start responding to craigslist ads that read something like...
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The last few days have been rather relaxing around here. I’ve taken a few days off blogging since the Wordcount blogathon ended on Monday, and even then I cheated with some Memorial Day parade pictures.
Now it’s the end of the school year, which means there are lots of events to attend....
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There’s not much time for writing tonight. It was another busy day, starting with the kids going off to run wild at their cousins’ house while husband and I worked on the freaking screen door some more. I swear to you, it’s like an exercise in eternity. Or maybe purgatory. Or an eternity in...
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Monday, 5/24, was haiku day for participants in the 2010 Wordcount blogathon. At the time I didn’t post a haiku, because I had other things to say. Today, my brain is fried from a day at the zoo with a bunch of third graders. So here you go. Four haikus about...
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Beyond Friday’s library defilement, the weekend was free of inner turmoil. We cleaned, had a visit from my parents, and bought a new storm door. The house is still coming together in the tiniest steps imaginable.
This week I have to persuade the husband to finish the door, hang house numbers and finish...
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Yesterday I published Same song, two verses, my story about two May 19 occurrences in my life. Six years to the day after my first date with my husband, I was in labor with our first child. Pretty nifty, right? What would really be great now is a followup story: May 20 of 1994...
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Since it’s still the weekend, and I believe in being lazy on the weekend, here’s some randomness from my life in no particular order:
Depending on who’s asking, my husband and I either met in a bar or were introduced by friends. Both are technically true.
Our wedding announcement in my husband’s hometown...
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Tonight I made our last meal with the old oven. Since I couldn’t get to our local meat market, and the other meat in town is pretty gross, I made a pizza using this recipe for the crust. It was easy, quick, and good, as long as you can get past the fact that...
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On April 3, 2003, I had a little adventure with my toddler and newborn while trying to hit a La Leche League meeting. Here’s the e-mail I sent afterward to my friend, Carol:
Today is a killer. Halfway to the meeting, I dropped my muffler; then I dragged it behind me for about seven miles.
After...
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