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86 degrees, mosquitoes, and my kids are bitching about being hot.a typical minnesota spring.

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sigh.

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here's what my child requested for lunch: brussels sprouts. that's it; just brussels sprouts. not noodles, not a hot dog, not the pie sitting on the counter. weirdo is on her second plate of steaming green goodness.

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here are two sure signs that spring has finally, finally come to minnesota: i took off my long underwear today, and i cut my meds in half. whee!

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karaoke night in the mcdonald's play land. someone actually thought this was a good idea.

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it may be 2011 for the rest of y'all, but here in our house it's 1881, complete with sun bonnets in january.

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i suspect most five-year-olds' favorite christmas gift wasn't a(nother) globe.

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everyone is back to school and work today, and i just completed the first serious post-xmas vacuuming. jaysus, the stuff i slurped up: varied, and horrifying.

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things one and two have been singing the praises of the season in lusty, if sometimes confused, harmony:from deck the halls: "hail the new year, lads in glasses"from i'll be home for christmas: "we'll have snow and bistletoe"

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we're one step closer to treating all people like people. merry christmas, everyone.

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what treats to leave for santa this christmas (this one brought them to tears)who will make chocolate milk for whomwhether or not they are playing a trick on each other or being "real" (this one got kind of metaphysical)

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that menu, in case you can't read it from my wonderful iphone snapshot, is:lutefisk (fish soaked in lye, for the uninitiated. according to cooking experts, the finished product "is the consistency of jello.")swedish meatballsrutabegasboiled potatoespickled beetslefselimpa rye breadcondiments (an exoticism to many lutherans)coffee (the most holy of lutheran beverages)milkwaterrice pudding with

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who says your skeelz have to rust when you're a stay-at-home mommy? today was a logistical tour de force:last night, mom friend a had offered to ferry my non-barfer, whom we'll call child 1, to and from preschool with her youngest (child 2) so i could stay home with my barfer (child 3). but when mom a arrived this morning to pick up child 1, she announced that her eldest (child 4) was at home and

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that's a description of chez nous today, not some new indie band name.

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nothing says "the morning after halloween" like a 6:30 am dum dum sucker and a pixie stix chaser.ook.

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thing one has become quite enamored of the baseball playoffs (me thinks because she'll watch anything on the glowing box), but she's not quite there yet on the details: she told me that the minnesota twins lost to the new york hankies.

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my god, i amuse me.

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children are the world's worst joke tellers. here is a sample of thing one's homegrown "humor"why did the chicken cross the chicken coop to get to the other side?to get the chicken's eggs!(laughs uncontrollably)

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psa 1: gentlemen, when you choose to run around the lake - and bully for you, getting some cardio in - please do not cap off your workout by dropping to the grassy median between the paths and doing bicycle-style sit-ups in your short shorts. please.psa 2: apparently one of the calvin klein underwear models is doing some construction work on a house in south minneapolis today. ladies, you might

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what's a counselor?when you tie your shoe, what do you do after you make the bunny ear loop?what are the lines in your hand for?go. to. sleep.

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at my daughter's school, twins johnny and...messiah.i am not making this up; i'm looking at the school directory right now.

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here are the names of some of the children at swim lessons yesterday: heinz (medium-bad). serenity. and...zen.i so wish i could be there when those parents yell at their children. "goddammit zen, i said to get your shoes on!" or, in a nod to seinfeld, "serenity, now!"

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and eat cupcake batter in your elmo undies.

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both the song, with its impossibly catchy, isley brothersesque hooks, and the video, which should win whatever awards there are for this sort of thing. must go listen on ipod over and over now.

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i recently had day surgery. it was such a minor event, i can hardly even bring myself to call it surgery; instead, let's call it "a procedure."for said procedure, i arrived at the hospital at 10:30, began at noon, and was through recovery and on my way home by 4. didn't even have general anesthesia, just that stuff that makes you dopey.the bill for the procedure has arrived, and the total is:

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"when i have a brand new hairdo,with my eyelashes all in curl,i float as the clouds on air do,i enjoy being a girl!"did you know back-to-school haircuts now come with free glitter nails or funky hair? it's a good life.

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are there red frogs?why are babies' mattresses hard?how come the words "pretend" and "imaginary" mean the same thing?when can we go to the carousel again?

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most people yell at the tv during sports. not my people: my mother and daughter are downstairs talking back to hgtv. apparently some designer needs to be benched.

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notes from the second annual family long weekend in duluth:the tall ships® are in town! which means 15 minutes of looking at a tall ship® and three hours appeasing whinny children, visiting the nearby park, spending $12 on one hot dog and two plates of fries, and horsing around the leftovers of said fries plus three rain jackets, a balloon pirate sword and a balloon doggie and leash through the

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how teeny are ants' mouths?who people do we not know?go to sleep, child.

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seen at the upscale toy and kids store: $24.99 burp clothes.i'm sure they're wonderful. i'm sure they have many amazing features: they potty train your kids, teach them spanish, and cheer their soccer games.but still...$25? for burp clothes? burp, which, as anyone who has spent time around babies knows, is a cute little euphemism for "copious amounts of projectile vomit"? $25 for something

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as we enter the season of grotesquely long car trips, here's a little something to keep the kiddies amused.

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here's a surefire way to piss off other parents: let your 4 and 6-year-old daughters get their ears pierced (yes, mom, really). hoo boy. methinks i may become an elementary school pariah.

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whether all birthstones are jewelsthe age of a stuffed giraffewho interrupted whom (this took quite a while to resolve because - yes - they kept interrupting each other)

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just returned from a doctor's appointment. while the nurse took my info, i killed some time knitting. the nurse looked at what i was doing and said:"are you making that for a grandchild?"

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granted, it's not the greatest product name. but it can't compete in the awfulness department with what i heard today on the radio. the announcer was talking about:"the new barnes & noble nook e-book reader"but what it sounded like was:"the new barnes & noble nookie book reader"did no one in their marketing department ever say this stuff out loud?

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the guest erupts in chicken pox. even though he's been vaccinated.

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there are now three laptop computers on my smallish dining room table, up from two the day before and one prior to that. these things are multiplying like freaking tribbles around here. tis life with IT guy.

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thing one's teacher, saint margo, compiled the favorite recipes of all her kindergarteners and created a cook book for all the moms. how she managed to take dictation on these creations with a straight face, i will never know.here are some samples:josie's chicken with a really yummy sauce on it (cuban chicken)whole jar of oliveswhole small can of tomato pastewhole onion - skin peeled then chopped

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five gallon-size bags of freshly harvested and chopped rhubarb. there are some benefits to living in minnesota.

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outside a store near my daughter's eye doctor:SEXYASIANFARMHOUSEANTIQUESthe mind reels...

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6 am - alarm goes off6:04 - alarm goes off6:08 - alarm goes off6:12 - alarm goes off; get up6:12-6:30 - check bank balance (still solvent), check e-mail, check people.com6:30-7:25 - make breakfasts and lunches, rouse and clothe child a, unload and reload dishwasher, break up fights between children, make beds, shove husband and child a out the door7:25-7:30 - eat7:30-8 - play don't break the ice,

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the mystery of the 13 missing easter eggs has been cracked (ha) - it was the squirrels. we actually spotted one eating a gummy bunny yesterday.

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pantless, in fact.

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now thing two's dollhouse people are arguing with each other. it sounds like i have a schizophrenic 4-year-old:"i want to sit on the big part of the merry-go-round!""no, i do!""no, i do!"

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in the latest food allergy news for kids newsletter: two brothers, ages 3 and 5. names? mercury and lincoln.perhaps they're expecting little baby chevrolet.

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1. going to target the monday after spring break ended for all minneapolis public schoolsapparently every other mom in minneapolis had the same idea. and apparently we all shop at the same target location. 2. three coins in the toiletour toilet is having some kind of personality crisis and has begun to imitate a fountain. actually, it imitated a fountain once, last night. since then, we've been

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the girls just poked their heads in the back door from playing outside in the drizzle."want to see my worm pockets?!" asked thing one.she had filled her rain slicker pockets with water (darn impermeable plastics), and thing two had then filled the pockets with...worms.masses of writhing worms, some of them seeming to reach up to me with their plaintive little heads. (butts? who can tell?)and of

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oh dear god. this was not in the so, you're having a girl! brochure.who would have guessed i'd wind up with a budding oligochaetologist?

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auf wiedersehen, ugly bathroom. adieu, ugly ceiling.

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spring + small children + park play date = icky tub sediment

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toro dingo, that is.ah, home renovations. soon we will be the proud possessors of an egress window.and my husband's new 37" lcd mistress has arrived...

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sheetrockers + air gun + hysterical, noise-averse 6-year-old = the bitch mother of all headaches.my eye is twitching.

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"gee, that's a big salad. you must be really hungry."shaddap, stick-boy. this is how i keep my girlish figure. especially after those little sirens in girl scout uniforms got to me with their thin mints.

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for your consideration:de•man•da•rin or•ange noun di-'man-d(ə-)rən 'är-inj - a small citrus fruit demanded by pushy children."i want some of those demandarin oranges we had at sierra's house!"

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heard coming from the basement of a friend's coworker's house, as the tv broadcasts the olympics:4-year-old: "A-S-S! A-S-S! A-S-S!"mom, upstairs: "olivia, what are you saying!"4-year-old: "i'm cheering for our team, mom! A-S-S! A-S-S!"mom: "you mean U-S-A?"4-year-old: "yeah, U-S-A! U-S-A!"

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but apparently they did and took thing one with them. the facsimile they left in her place was very convincing until this afternoon, when it showed up with the book it had picked out at the school book fair: math machine - a fun new way to do math! it hardly has any words, just a bunch of sliding pieces that move over numbers so you can solve equations. this cannot be my child.

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my babies, knowing how little i care for winter, made me "a box of spring" - construction paper violets, peonies, chrysanthemums, roses, tulips, lilies of the valley, daffodils, and tiger lilies.sweet, sweet babies.

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a friend told me yesterday that i don't look a day over 36, and i realized that is a compliment since she shaved 9 years off my age.when did i become the crypt keeper?

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it's great my children have active, questioning little minds, but do they have to be active and questioning so early in the morning? thing two likes to start the day with a question-and-answer period. today's topic - at 4:53 a.m. - "what did people do before they had electricity?"

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from my in-laws: $100 and a flask.i like my husband's people.

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so, if edy's slow churned ice cream has 100 calories per serving, and there are 12 servings in the carton, and you can lose weight by limiting yourself to 1,200 calories a day, then if i eat nothing but ice cream, i'll lose weight.i see no flaw in this reasoning.

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"mommy, can we watch antiques roadshow?""um, sure.""yay!"

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getting ready to head to preschool this morning, i piled thing two's winter gear by the back door and asked her to put it on while i threw on my walking clothes. when i got back to the kitchen, there she was, all bundled up.as i walked to the door to leave, i caught a glimpse of thing two's bedroom...with her skirt laid neatly on the bed. when i asked her what was going on, she said proudly, "i

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here's a name from a church bulletin, announcing the joyous arrival of...tennyson yosemite.sigh. dogs, people. this is why you get dogs. or cats. or hamsters. or start an indie band. you don't inflict something like this on a human being.that kid is so changing his name to john someday.

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negative fucking four degrees.why. why. why?

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i respectfully submit:at•tack•le (ə-'ta-kəl) verb: to chase, capture and then be flummoxed by. "owen attackled me and selena today at recess, but then he let us go and we ran away."

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"don't rub your banana on the wall!""don't rub your banana on the floor!"

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"legalizing same-sex marriage would be a recognition of basic american principles, and would represent the culmination of our nation's commitment to equal rights...the very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society; any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional...the underlying rights and liberties that marriage embodies are not in any way confined to

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when you're 6 and 4 and you get a dollhouse and plasma cars and bean bag chairs and a tea set and fairy wings and uno and blocksandlegosandbooksandartsuppliesandSOMUCHMORE.

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"don't put that phone antenna up your nose!""get out of the fireplace!"

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on the first day of christmas vacation, my tummy found for me:12 holiday m&ms 11 pastel mints10 white chocolate chips9 shakes of sprinkles8 slurps of caffeine7 licks of peppermint6 nibbles of batter5 fingersful of frosting4 broken cookie bits3 hershey's kisses2 giant gumdropsand a fat slice of gingerbread hoooooouseback to weight watchers.

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i love my babies without limits. but after an afternoon of hearing thing one boss thing two around, i can't wait until the day when little bit tells her big sister to stick it up her ass.and dave, once again: i'm sorry.

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i have discovered that i really, really like all-bran. the taste of it. plain, no sugar.sad, isn't it?

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metal facial piercings + minus 5 degree temperatures = ow ow ow!

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my husband, god love him, is a cheerful, optimistic sort. still not sure what he's doing with me.this morning, we woke up to the start of the minneapolis winter: 9 degrees, multiple inches of snow, and a nasty gale whipping it all to a balmy -23 windchill.and the handsome man says to me, "at least it's pretty."well. i try to be temperate and respectful in my conversations with the spouse, but

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thing two is getting quite an education at her lutheran preschool. sort of. she's stopped singing "cheesus loves me" in favor of "jesus loves me." but apparently, the way she knows cheesus/jesus loves her is the "pieble tells me so."oh well. at least i'll be warm in hell.

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it's thing two's turn to take snacks in to preschool today. other kids have recently brought in cheese puffs, fruit leathers, even skittles.my kid? my kid wants to bring in cucumbers and carrots.

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i have been invited by my banana to "party with potassium" at eatachiquita.com.

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thing one crawled into bed with us at 6:30 this morning and triumphantly announced that she had figured out why christmas is called christmas:"it's because the ice on the ground is crystals, and we miss seeing santa because we're asleep!"works for me.

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for your consideration, the latest words coined by my offspring:hicksterical (hik-ster-i-kəl) adjective – extremely amusing to country folks"that hay ride was really hicksterical!"imprising (im-priz-iŋ) adjective – simultaneously impressive and surprising"look, i can jump over all my halloween candy! isn't that imprising?"

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and indeed, the folks i called the cops on as suspected drug dealers are, in fact, my new neighbors. they move in the day before thanksgiving.time to dust off the ol' muffin tins for a more neighborly welcome.

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we live in a pretty tranquil part of minneapolis, but my overprotective-mother/irish-worrying-heritage/dead-in-a-ditch mentality still gets the better of me.viz: i recently read in our neighborhood newsletter about mobile drug dealing and how to respond if you think you see it. info duly highlighted (yes) and posted on fridge.then this morning, as thing two and i went about our morning routine,

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as the apotheosis of michael pollan and the whole foods movement continues, i just read an article that published recipes from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. "lessons from an older american diet," it said. lessons like...calf head soupdress the head and boil until done, remove the bones from the meat, take all the meat from the upper part of the head and chop fine, and put it into the

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here's a rundown of my morning plans:weight watcherstargetthe liquor store

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looking for a great drink, and an even better reason to drink it? if you're in the twin cities, come to uptown's bar abilene on wednesday, november 18. from 6-9 p.m., it will be "margaritas for a cause" night, with $3 from every margarita sold going to benefit children with cmv.what's cmv, you ask? so did i.cmv, or cytomegalovirus, is one of those beasties that lives inside most of us by the time

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i hate wallpaper. hate, hate, hate it.

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don't lick the railing at the post officedon't put exposed scissor blades in your mouthflush (day after day after month after year)

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except it's october 10.fuck me.

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chutes and ladders with a cheating almost 6-year-old and a flighty 4-year-old. flighty won, much to cheater's vexation.

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dropping thing two off at preschool, i noticed a flyer for an upcoming church stewardship event. in addition to the usual what, where, when info, it included this enticing come-on:youth projects!dvd!meatballs!oh, and everything garrison keillor says about lutherans and norwegians is true.

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my new favorite web site, information is beautiful, puts difficult issues into clear visual images, like this:the billion dollar gramholy cats.

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thing two attends preschool in a church near our house. as i was walking her in today, i saw an elegant older woman in a snazzy silver suv coming through the parking lot. the lot has big yellow posts at the end of each row of parking spaces, and as this woman rounded one of the poles, she scraped the entire side of her suv along it. we're talking a yellow striped dent two feet high and five feet

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and librarians:uncle bobby's wedding

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my brother just sent my daughters matching skirts for their birthdays. musical skirts. musical skirts that play the macarena OVER AND OVER AND OVER.i should have beat him up less when we were kids. or maybe more.

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and who stole my other baby and replaced her with a preschooler?

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ok, who stole my baby and left this huge kindergartener in her place?

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here's what the girlies and i have been up to lately:making our own papervisiting an apple orchard and then making pies and applesaucecross stitchingmaking button ringsbut i absolutely draw the line at blowing up any pig bladders.

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[scene: the kitchen, lunchtime]enter mom, to make sandwiches[moments later]enter things one and two, to fight under mom's feetmom: "ladies, get out of the kitchen while i'm making lunch!"the things exit; then, seconds later, thing two reappearsthing two: "mommy, will you help me draw a picture of you, and then help me write, 'you're ugly – i don't like you' on it?"[end scene]

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