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Don’t read this if you’re eating. (Or about to.) (Or just finished eating.)

June 6, 2009 4 Comments

Grant, from the bathroom: “Mom!? When I have golden poop, I just move it out of the way. Do you know golden poop?” Mom, from the living room (and worried feces are being rearranged in some horrible, horrible manner): “Stay there, don’t move, I’m coming in there…. What do you mean?” “Do you know the […]

Beef. It’s what was GOING to be for dinner.

June 5, 2009 28 Comments

I hosted bunco at my house last night. I love to entertain, whether it is simply a couple of friends popping in for a visit, a potluck, a big dinner, whatever. I love to cook. I love to see my family and friends. Mostly? I love that having people over makes me clean my house. […]

Spinach and Strawberry Salad

June 3, 2009 8 Comments

This is one of my very favorite salads, EVER! Easy and delicious spinach and strawberry salad using Trader Joe’s Champagne Pear Vinaigrette

Stinkergarten

June 2, 2009 17 Comments

OK. After Grant purposely tanked his Kindergarten Assessment, I sat him down and explained to him that by being a stinker he has jeopardized his Kindergarten future. No snack time with the other kids… no recess on the playground… no story time on the Reading Rug… no being Like His Big Brothers. His eyes got […]

Is there a Kindergarten class specifically for stinkers?

June 2, 2009 11 Comments

My 5 year old is in the doghouse. Why, you ask? Did he write on the walls? No. Although he’s done that before. Did he write on the bathroom mirror with toothpaste and his finger? No. Although he’s done that, too. Did he completely thrash his room? Well he has, but no, no, that’s not […]

Tips & Tricks

June 1, 2009 30 Comments

Sharing things that make life a little easier. Little tips, little tricks. My teeth are real. However, I still buy denture cleaning tablets. Before I get into the shower I take my wedding rings and one of the little denture tablets and drop them into a little cup of water. My rings are clean by […]

Dear Lord, please give me the strength to be Grant’s Mom…

May 31, 2009 21 Comments

Grant is not cooperating. He’s been told to clean up his room. I am not going to do it for him. It actually looks messier each time I check on him. I just gave him a swat on his rear end because he sassed me about it. (Swat, with hand, totally appropriate and more for […]

Overheard at lunch today…

May 27, 2009 22 Comments

My precious 5 year old has learned a snippet of some inappropriate song. Grant is singing “I looooove feelin’ dirty! I loooove feelin’ cheap! I looooove feelin’ dirty! I loooove feelin’ cheap!” over and over, like a broken record. Jump on into my nightmare. The water’s warm. ~~~~ UPDATE ~~~~~ Just found out what it […]

I’d fire him, but that’s what he wants.

May 27, 2009 11 Comments

The instructions: Conner, please go hang up your ski jacket. The result. Um, not exactly what I had in mind. I was thinking more along these lines: After yesterday’s lunch money, bike crashing, ripped shorts, “parallel to the park” debacle, I had been hoping the rip in the shorts was small and on a seam. […]

Handsome Hubby drew the short straw this morning.

May 26, 2009 14 Comments

Conner will not get out of bed in the morning.He has AC-DC’s Back In Black album in his CD alarm clock… Blaring.Nope. He’ll lay there, bleary eyed and listening, but he won’t get out of bed. He’s gotten up to “make his bed” (can you see my “air quotes” here?) but all he does is […]