Angel child / Devil child

Jamie is typically very well behaved when we are out of the house and around other people. Other people’s houses, restaurants, etc. This was even true when he was a baby – on his worst days at home the best thing to do was to always leave the house. Usually, he perked right up. So [...]

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Saturday Fun

Parents of a friend of mine from the Knit Gang have a house on Indian Lake. Jamie & I made the hour driv e yesterday for a party. Even though it was unexpectedly chilly, it was great fun. Jamie got to take his first speed boat ride x 3, and another of my favorite knitters [...]

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Vacation aftermath

Jamie and I are back home after a week in the woods and his re-entry is proving to be very, very difficult. He wants to still be on vacation and is really taking it out on MD, who did not come with us. All three of us have things we want to get done today [...]

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Things that won’t get the house clean

But sure are fun!

Playing with goo.
Chasing Jamie around the yard with the hose.
Playing video games.
Taking a walk while Jamie masters the scooter.

All things we did on Sunday instead of getting work done.
I think the both parents working thing really takes it’s toll on me in the summer. While the rest of the neighborhood is wide [...]

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Riding the bus makes you stupid

Stupid as in, how do I get out of downtown? Oh wait, missed the exit so I’ll turn around. Oh crap, can’t turn around here. Jeeze louise, I left downtown 10 minutes ago and hey, I’m back! Right, I’ve been getting off at this exit my entire life and still, I went the wrong way!
All [...]

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Feeling a little sorry for myself

It’s 9:45, my 4 year old is still awake and my husband, who had to scoot down the stairs on his butt earlier his hips are in such bad shape, is snoring on the couch. I’m going to go reclaim what shred of an evening I have left by watching tv in bed and trying [...]

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Liar liar pants on fire

Yes, I know I said every day in May. But bedtime has gone to hell and right now I’m working on not tossing the kid or myself out a window. Tomorrow, perhaps.

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Every day in May

That’s my blogging pledge. I’m obviously out of the habit of posting regularly and have started to avoid this place all together. I broke our camera recently so I can’t even use pictures as filler!
I’ve been incredibly consumed with work lately and it’s finally starting to ease off to bearable. We’re struggling a bit with [...]

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Still waters

Jamie was getting a very stern talking to about running around in the parking lot the other day when out of the blue he asked, “Was Great-grandma O running around in a parking lot and got hit by a car and that is why she died?” Ok, first, I will admit that I giggled at [...]

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Pickety pick pick

Everything I’m doing in my new position at the moment can be categorized as “hurry up and wait” type of tasks. Everything requires someone or something else to respond before I can move on to the next task. Whether it’s scheduling a butt-load of events or trying to register at a funding website, it’s a [...]

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