Category: Daily Living
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Get On The Bus
So, a wrecked car is a perfect reason to go exploring your city on public transit. I used to use the Marta in Atlanta when I lived there – it was a great way…
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Finding a Reliable Babysitter: The Hardest Task on Earth
My husband is an artist. Everyone once in awhile we have an opening to go to that we can’t (won’t) bring the kids to. There was a day when, with only one kid, we…
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Oh, Wicked Past.. Stop Creeping Up on Me…
Funny how people from your past (read: people from your past that you really never want to hear from again) find a way to infiltrate your happy little bubble.. Some folks just can’t leave…
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Something In the Way She Poos
I am knee deep in other people’s poopy. Yesterday I wiped a total of three other being’s bottoms – both kids and the dog. Am I being too sharing??? Tough. The most alarming of…
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Summer Time, Summer Time, sum sum Summer Time
Anyone else feeling that middle-of-the-summer slump?? Anyone else having those days where you just want to put on all your DVDs and lay in your pajamas with your kids? Or those days where you…
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Dangling Tragedies….
In my haste to get to Florida to be with my dad, I completely left everyone in true cliff-hanging style about the situation. Sorry ’bout that. Here’s the seet’ation…. Quick catch-up on the man himself:…
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Girl’s Day Out
Right now she is napping, but in about an hour, my little sweet daughter and I will go out on the town. My husband and son are working in the studio today, being brilliant…
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“I have no problem spanking you in front of all these people…”
This is what I actually said to my six year old son yesterday. It’s true. I never thought those words would come out of my mouth, but, I haven’t been able to stop saying…
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City Slicker am I
My parents live out in the middle of Nowhere, Florida. To get to the grocery store one must embark on a journey that lasts days and nights. The internet connection is almost nonexistent and…
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S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y Nite!
I have to catch you up on the weekend I had – something magical happened on Saturday night that, most wives will attest to, is a gem in one’s marriage. I came home from…