Although I hate to even think about how eventually I’m going to have to think about a whole, whole lot of stuff that hasn’t been getting done while I’ve been on Husband Care Duty, there is one good thing that came out of this past week: I played “Cash Cow 2″ on Webkinz.com enough [...]
Seeing my sister’s number on the caller ID, I pick up the phone and say the first thing on my mind:
Me: “You know what I want? I want a hairstyle that I can wash and dry, and it looks great without any blow-drying, flat-ironing, or curling.”
Mary: “That’s what every woman wants. [...]
Dean: “I had the most interesting dream.”
Rose comes into our room asking us to care for her.
Me: “Just a minute, let Daddy tell me about his dream first.”
Dean: “I had created these two pieces of artwork, and without my knowing it a couple of my siblings had taken them and put them [...]
Mabel, looking out the plane window during take-off: “It’s like Google Earth, live!”
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Me, to Rose after putting her nightgown on her: “You’re so pretty.”
Rose, nonchalantly: “You can just call me ‘Cinderella.’”
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Me, waiting in a very long, very slow-moving line in a tunnel waiting to get into the U.S. Capitol: “Hey kids [...]
My cousin Laura tagged me way back when I first brought this imaginary blog endeavor out into the wide open air of The Internet, but since coming up with a few things to say about myself is soooo hard, I just never could get around to it in between all those important posts about mending [...]
you might want to try pan-fried toddler — because toddlers already come prepared with a crumb coating.
Last night Dean and I watched the first couple episodes of the The Pallisers, a Victorian period piece based on novels by Anthony Trollope. I’m afraid the pacing and production values are a little too 1970s for me (which is to say, they’re slow and cheap,) (well, the costumes and sets don’t look cheap, [...]
and other days more like one of her ugly stepsisters.
It’s Sunday morning; we have a few more minutes left before we need to leave for church. I’ve decided to wear my new (three months old but not yet worn) brown leather shoes, and since they’re not broken in yet, I decide they’ll be more [...]
I forgot to say that after my siblings April Fooled me, I got a little into the spirit of things, so when Isaac came home from school, I told him, “Somebody put a Wii on Craig’s List for $320 and they accidentally put our phone number on the ad and we’ve been getting calls from [...]
Me: “So, two wizards are trying to decide how to get past an obstacle, and one says, ‘How about if I turn it into a small burrowing rodent?’ and the other one says, ‘Gopher it!’”
Mabel & Isaac: “Mom, that is terrible.”
Me (to Dean): “How should I spell that — ‘go for,’ or [...]
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